linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/4 v2] random add rng-seed to command line option

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Date:   Mon, 10 Feb 2020 06:45:01 -0800
From:   Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-team@...roid.com, Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/4 v2] random add rng-seed to command line option

A followup to commit 428826f5358c922dc378830a1717b682c0823160
("fdt: add support for rng-seed") to extend what was started
with Open Firmware (OF or Device Tree) parsing, but also add
it to the command line.

If CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER is set, then feed the rng-seed
command line option length as added trusted entropy.

Always erase all views of the rng-seed option, except early command
line parsing, to prevent leakage to applications or modules, to
eliminate any attack vector.

It is preferred to add rng-seed to the Device Tree, but some
platforms do not have this option, so this adds the ability to
provide some command-line-limited data to the entropy through this
alternate mechanism.  Expect on average 6 bits of useful entropy
per character.

Mark Salyzyn (4):
  init: move string constants to __initconst section
  init: boot_command_line can be truncated
  random: rng-seed source is utf-8
  random: add rng-seed= command line option

---
v2
- Split into four bite sized patches.
- Correct spelling in commit message.
- rng-seed is assumed to be utf-8, so correct both to 6 bits/character
  of collected entropy.
- Move entropy collection to a static __always_inline helper function.

 drivers/char/random.c  |  10 +++-
 include/linux/random.h |   5 ++
 init/main.c            | 115 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 3 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

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