linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG

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Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:07:09 -0500
From:   Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@...il.com>
To:     Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>
Cc:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com, wens@...e.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG

Add Ted T'so to cc list. Shouldn't he be included on anything affecting
the random(4) driver?

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Corentin Labbe
<clabbe.montjoie@...il.com> wrote:

> From: LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>
>
> The Security System have a PRNG.
> This patch add support for it as an hwrng.

Which is it? A PRNG & a HW RNG are quite different things.
It would, in general, be a fairly serious error to treat a PRNG
as a HWRNG.

If it is just a prng (which it appears to be from a quick look
at your code) then it is not clear it is useful since the
random(4) driver already has two PRNGs. It might be
but I cannot tell.