[PATCH v2] hwrng: iproc: set quality to 1024

Álvaro Fernández Rojas noltari at gmail.com
Sat Feb 20 15:01:07 EST 2021


This allows khwrngd to make use of iproc-rng200.

Justification:
cat /dev/hwrng | rngtest -c 1000
rngtest 6.10
Copyright (c) 2004 by Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

rngtest: starting FIPS tests...
rngtest: bits received from input: 20000032
rngtest: FIPS 140-2 successes: 1000
rngtest: FIPS 140-2 failures: 0
rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Monobit: 0
rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Poker: 0
rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Runs: 0
rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Long run: 0
rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Continuous run: 0
rngtest: input channel speed: (min=107.179; avg=200.770; max=9765625.000)Kibits/s
rngtest: FIPS tests speed: (min=34.742; avg=39.905; max=66.458)Mibits/s
rngtest: Program run time: 97829648 microseconds

1000 successes and 0 failures -> 100% success rate

Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari at gmail.com>
---
 v2: set quality to 1024 and add justification

 drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c
index 01583faf9893..d22406528ac5 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ static int iproc_rng200_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	priv->rng.read = iproc_rng200_read;
 	priv->rng.init = iproc_rng200_init;
 	priv->rng.cleanup = iproc_rng200_cleanup;
+	priv->rng.quality = 1024;
 
 	/* Register driver */
 	ret = devm_hwrng_register(dev, &priv->rng);
-- 
2.20.1




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