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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