[PATCH v2 0/3] efi: add support for seeding the kernel RNG from UEFI

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Thu Oct 20 11:34:13 PDT 2016


On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:
> This implements generic EFI core kernel code to seed the kernel entropy
> pool from a Linux specific UEFI configuration table containing a random seed
> supplied by the firmware. (#1)
>
> In addition, it wires it up for ARM and arm64, by invoking the EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL
> UEFI protocol from the stub, and populating such a UEFI config table using its
> output.

Looks good to me! Now that I understand it. ;)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>

-Kees

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Kees Cook
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