[PATCH v2 4/5] arm64: Add support for SMCCC TRNG entropy source

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Thu Nov 5 09:34:01 EST 2020


On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 15:30, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 03:04:57PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 15:03, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 01:41:42PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 12:56:55PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
>
> > > That said, I'm not sure it's great to plumb this under the
> > > arch_get_random*() interfaces, e.g. given this measn that
> > > add_interrupt_randomness() will end up trapping to the host all the time
> > > when it calls arch_get_random_seed_long().
> >
> > As it turns out, add_interrupt_randomness() isn't actually used on ARM.
>
> It's certainly called on arm64, per a warning I just hacked in:
>
> [    1.083802] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    1.084802] add_interrupt_randomness called
> [    1.085685] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at drivers/char/random.c:1267 add_interrupt_randomness+0x2e8/0x318
> [    1.087599] Modules linked in:
> [    1.088258] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.10.0-rc2-dirty #13
> [    1.089672] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
> [    1.090659] pstate: 60400085 (nZCv daIf +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
> [    1.091910] pc : add_interrupt_randomness+0x2e8/0x318
> [    1.092965] lr : add_interrupt_randomness+0x2e8/0x318
> [    1.094021] sp : ffff80001000be80
> [    1.094732] x29: ffff80001000be80 x28: ffff2d0c80209840
> [    1.095859] x27: 00000000137c3e3a x26: ffff8000100abdd0
> [    1.096978] x25: 0000000000000035 x24: ffff67918bda8000
> [    1.098100] x23: ffffc57c31923fe8 x22: 00000000fffedc14
> [    1.099224] x21: ffff2d0dbef796a0 x20: ffffc57c331d16a0
> [    1.100339] x19: ffffc57c33720a48 x18: 0000000000000010
> [    1.101459] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000002
> [    1.102578] x15: 00000000000000e7 x14: ffff80001000bb20
> [    1.103706] x13: 00000000ffffffea x12: ffffc57c337b56e8
> [    1.104821] x11: 0000000000000003 x10: ffffc57c3379d6a8
> [    1.105944] x9 : ffffc57c3379d700 x8 : 0000000000017fe8
> [    1.107073] x7 : c0000000ffffefff x6 : 0000000000000001
> [    1.108186] x5 : 0000000000057fa8 x4 : 0000000000000000
> [    1.109305] x3 : 00000000ffffffff x2 : ffffc57c337455d0
> [    1.110428] x1 : db8dc9c2a1e0f600 x0 : 0000000000000000
> [    1.111552] Call trace:
> [    1.112083]  add_interrupt_randomness+0x2e8/0x318
> [    1.113074]  handle_irq_event_percpu+0x48/0x90
> [    1.114016]  handle_irq_event+0x48/0xf8
> [    1.114826]  handle_fasteoi_irq+0xa4/0x130
> [    1.115689]  generic_handle_irq+0x30/0x48
> [    1.116528]  __handle_domain_irq+0x64/0xc0
> [    1.117392]  gic_handle_irq+0xc0/0x138
> [    1.118194]  el1_irq+0xbc/0x180
> [    1.118870]  arch_cpu_idle+0x20/0x30
> [    1.119630]  default_idle_call+0x8c/0x350
> [    1.120479]  do_idle+0x224/0x298
> [    1.121163]  cpu_startup_entry+0x28/0x70
> [    1.121994]  secondary_start_kernel+0x184/0x198
>
> ... and I couldn't immediately spot why 32-bit arm  would be different.
>

Hmm, I actually meant both arm64 and ARM.

Marc looked into this at my request a while ago, and I had a look
myself as well at the time, and IIRC, we both concluded that we don't
hit that code path. Darn.

In any case, the way add_interrupt_randomness() calls
arch_get_random_seed_long() is absolutely insane, so we should try to
fix that in any case.



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