[PATCH] arm64: head: rely on CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 11:46:18AM +0200, Andrea Righi wrote:
> The CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM .config option has been removed by
> commit 9592eef7c16e ("random: remove CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM").
> 
> Depend on CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU to determine whether we can rely on
> __arm64_rndr() to initialize the seed for kaslr.
> 
> Fixes: 9592eef7c16e ("random: remove CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM")

> -#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM
> +#ifdef CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU
>  		 if (!__early_cpu_has_rndr() ||
>  		     !__arm64_rndr((unsigned long *)&seed))
>  #endif

I think the sense here would be more that we should just unconditionally
use RNDR if it's present - previously we'd use the result even if we
didn't have strong trust in the CPU implementation and I don't see why
we'd want to change that.
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