[PATCH] arm64: mte: initialize RGSR_EL1.SEED in __cpu_setup

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri May 7 07:52:15 PDT 2021


On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 08:37:25PM -0700, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
> A valid implementation choice for the ChooseRandomNonExcludedTag()
> pseudocode function used by IRG is to behave in the same way as with
> GCR_EL1.RRND=0. This would mean that RGSR_EL1.SEED is used as an LFSR
> which must have a non-zero value in order for IRG to properly produce
> pseudorandom numbers. However, RGSR_EL1 is reset to an UNKNOWN value
> on soft reset and thus may reset to 0. Therefore we must initialize
> RGSR_EL1.SEED to a non-zero value in order to ensure that IRG behaves
> as expected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc at google.com>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org

Rather than a generic cc stable that goes all the way to 4.4, please
add:

Fixes: 3b714d24ef17 ("arm64: mte: CPU feature detection and initial sysreg configuration")
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 5.10.x

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin



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