[PATCH v2] mtd: otp: Put factory OTP/NVRAM into the entropy pool

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Sat Jun 3 11:31:59 PDT 2023


The factory OTP, if supported, contains factory-programmed
information such as typically the serial number or production
week for the chip.

As this is device-unique information, submit it into the
system entropy pool.

This does not count as improvement of the entropy as such
but in practice it makes it a bit more random to mix in these
numbers.

Cc: Michael Walle <michael at walle.cc>
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
---
ChangeLog v1->v2:
- Drop the conditional to return as many bytes as requested
  to add the OTP to the entropy pool: it doesn't matter
  whatsoever in this case.
- Collected Jason's ACK.

This is similar to the patch I made to add MMC/SD-card serial
numbers to randomness, just with raw NOR flash.
---
 drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
index 60670b2f70b9..d03412a82549 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/idr.h>
 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
 #include <linux/gfp.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/reboot.h>
 #include <linux/leds.h>
@@ -966,6 +967,24 @@ static int mtd_otp_nvmem_add(struct mtd_info *mtd)
 		}
 
 		if (size > 0) {
+			/*
+			 * The factory OTP contains thing such as a unique serial
+			 * number and is small, so let's read it out and put it
+			 * into the entropy pool.
+			 */
+			void *otp;
+
+			otp = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+			if (!otp)
+				return -ENOMEM;
+			err = mtd_nvmem_fact_otp_reg_read(mtd, 0, otp, size);
+			if (err < 0) {
+				kfree(otp);
+				return err;
+			}
+			add_device_randomness(otp, size);
+			kfree(otp);
+
 			nvmem = mtd_otp_nvmem_register(mtd, "factory-otp", size,
 						       mtd_nvmem_fact_otp_reg_read);
 			if (IS_ERR(nvmem)) {
-- 
2.40.1




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