linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Initial support for Allwinner's Security ID fuses

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Date:	Thu, 23 May 2013 09:56:46 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Oliver Schinagl <oliver+list@...inagl.nl>
Cc:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...b.de>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Oliver Schinagl <oliver@...inagl.nl>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Initial support for Allwinner's Security ID fuses

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Oliver Schinagl
<oliver+list@...inagl.nl> wrote:

(...)
> While initially these fuses are used to somewhat determin the chipID, these
> appear to be writeable by the user and thus can be used for other purpouses.
> For example storing a 128 bit root key, a unique serial number, which could
> then even be used as a MAC address.
(...)
Then follows some code to read out the keys from sysfs I guess..
> +static int __init sid_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)

It's really simple to actually make the kernel use this to seed the
entropy pool.

#include <linux/random.h>
add_device_randomness(u8 *, num);

If you know after probe that you can read out a number of bytes
of device-unique data, I think you should add those bytes to the
entropy pool like this.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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