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Message-ID: <20140414160438.GA29351@lst.de>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:04:38 +0200
From: Torsten Duwe <duwe@....de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
Satoru Takeuchi <satoru.takeuchi@...il.com>,
ingo.tuchscherer@...ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Hans-Georg Markgraf <MGRF@...ibm.com>,
Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 01/03]: hwrng: provide an injection point for pure
hardware randomness
This patch adds an interface to the random pool for feeding entropy in-kernel.
It may serve as a destination for dedicated HWRNGs.
It resembles -- and could be merged with -- the ioctl(RNDADDENTROPY) code, plus
a sleep condition for eager writers.
Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@...e.de>
---
include/linux/hw_random.h | 2 ++
drivers/char/random.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
--- a/include/linux/hw_random.h
+++ b/include/linux/hw_random.h
@@ -47,5 +47,7 @@ struct hwrng {
extern int hwrng_register(struct hwrng *rng);
/** Unregister a Hardware Random Number Generator driver. */
extern void hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng);
+/** Feed random bits into the pool. */
+extern void add_hwgenerator_randomness(const char *buffer, size_t count, size_t entropy);
#endif /* LINUX_HWRANDOM_H_ */
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <linux/cryptohash.h>
#include <linux/fips.h>
@@ -1347,3 +1347,25 @@ randomize_range(unsigned long start, uns
return 0;
return PAGE_ALIGN(get_random_int() % range + start);
}
+
+/* Interface for in-kernel drivers of true hardware RNGs.
+ * Those devices may produce endless random bits and will be throttled
+ * when our pool is full.
+ */
+void add_hwgenerator_randomness(const char *buffer, size_t count,
+ size_t entropy)
+{
+ struct entropy_store *poolp = &input_pool;
+
+ /* Suspend writing if we're above the trickle threshold.
+ * We'll be woken up again once below random_write_wakeup_thresh,
+ * or when the calling thread is about to terminate.
+ */
+ wait_event_interruptible(random_write_wait, kthread_should_stop() ||
+ input_pool.entropy_count
+ <= random_write_wakeup_thresh);
+ mix_pool_bytes(poolp, buffer, count, NULL);
+ credit_entropy_bits(poolp, entropy);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_hwgenerator_randomness);
+
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