short entropy delay causes RNG hardware error

Stefano Manni stefano.manni at gmail.com
Mon Aug 5 09:01:54 PDT 2024


Hello,

on a custom board based on imx6ul once linux starts I see lot of errors
like this:

  caam_jr 2141000.jr: 2000005b: CCB: desc idx 0: RNG: Hardware error

approximately every 10 seconds. And if I try to read from device the
same error occurs:

  ~# dd if=/dev/hwrng of=/dev/null bs=1 count=1
  caam_jr 2141000.jr: 2000005b: CCB: desc idx 0: RNG: Hardware error
  dd: /dev/hwrng: Invalid argument

No errors are fired in barebox where the RNG self-test is run
succesfully:

  rng_self_test: RNG software self-test passed
  caam 2140000.crypto at 2140000.of: Instantiated RNG4 SH0
  caam 2140000.crypto at 2140000.of: Instantiated RNG4 SH1
  caam 2140000.crypto at 2140000.of: registering rng-caam

Here [1] I found that enlarging the entroy delay may help so I tried to
do the same in barebox by changing RTSDCTL_ENT_DLY_MIN from 3200 to
4800 and it succeded, I no longer see those errors in linux and trying
to read from the device works perfectly.

The strange thing is that on another board based on imx6sx I never see
those errors.

Is it something new to you? 
May we change the delay? On linux-imx 6.6.3 3200 is still used.

Best,
Stefano

[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAOMZO5D0m1xCfgFifKz1H+oYQSfxsfuZp4U39rPMACmzv1fvjQ@mail.gmail.com/#t





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