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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 15:02:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] enable early printing of hashed pointers
On Mon, 28 May 2018, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> Currently printing pointers early in the boot sequence can result in a
> dummy string '(____ptrval____)' being printed. While resolving this
> issue it was noticed that we can use the hw RNG if available for hashing
> pointers.
>
> Patch one and two do the ground work to be able to use hw RNG removing
> from get_random_bytes_arch() the call to get_random_bytes() and
> returning the number of bytes of random material successfully returned.
>
> Patch three uses the hw RNG to get keying material if it is available.
>
> Patch four further assists debugging early in the boot sequence for
> machines that do not have a hw RNG by adding a command line option
> 'debug_boot_weak_hash'. If enabled, non-cryptographically secure hashing
> is used instead of siphash so we can hash at any time.
>
> During the versions of this set I have been totally confused about which
> patches go through which tree. This version again puts all 4 patches
> together in the hope they will go through Andrew's tree.
>
>
> Steve,
>
> Could you please take a quick squiz at the final 2 patches if you get a
> chance. I assumed we are in preemptible context during early_init based
> on your code (and code comment) and called static_branch_disable()
> directly if hw RNG returned keying material. It's a pretty simple
> change but I'd love to get someone else to check I've not noob'ed it.
early_initcalls() are not that early :) They run in thread context fully
preemtible so calling static_branch_disable() is perfectly fine.
Thanks,
tglx
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