linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/3] random: rng-seed source is utf-8

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Message-Id: <158166062748.9887.15284887096084339722.stgit@devnote2>
Date:   Fri, 14 Feb 2020 15:10:27 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: [PATCH 2/3] random: rng-seed source is utf-8

From: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>

commit 428826f5358c922dc378830a1717b682c0823160
("fdt: add support for rng-seed") makes the assumption that the data
in rng-seed is binary, when it is typically constructed of utf-8
characters which has a bitness of roughly 6 to give appropriate
credit due for the entropy.

Fixes: 428826f5358c ("fdt: add support for rng-seed")
Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-team@...roid.com
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
---
 drivers/char/random.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index c7f9584de2c8..ee21a6a584b1 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -2306,7 +2306,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_hwgenerator_randomness);
 void add_bootloader_randomness(const void *buf, unsigned int size)
 {
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER))
-		add_hwgenerator_randomness(buf, size, size * 8);
+		add_hwgenerator_randomness(buf, size, size * 6);
 	else
 		add_device_randomness(buf, size);
 }