linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] hwrng: iproc-rng200

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Message-ID: <a257d9fe-0a6d-8dd5-cdaf-5b3e7fdf3391@samsung.com>
Date:   Wed, 20 May 2020 10:18:30 +0200
From:   Kamil Konieczny <k.konieczny@...sung.com>
To:     Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@...sung.com>,
        Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ray Jui <rjui@...adcom.com>,
        Scott Branden <sbranden@...adcom.com>,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com,
        Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        Matthias Brugger <mbrugger@...e.com>,
        Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@....net>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
Cc:     Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] hwrng: iproc-rng200 - Set the quality value

Hi,

On 19.05.2020 23:25, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
> The value was estimaded with ea_iid[1] using on 10485760 bytes read from
> the RNG via /dev/hwrng. The min-entropy value calculated using the most
> common value estimate (NIST SP 800-90P[2], section 6.3.1) was 7.964464.
> 
> [1] https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=316f3d79-6cf9840e-316eb636-0cc47a312ab0-5f119f729b3ddc11&q=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fusnistgov%2FSP800-90B_EntropyAssessment

This link looks ugly and do not protect anything.
Can you just cut out that "protect2" thing and put proper direct link to github ?

> [2] https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-90b/final
> 
> Signed-off-by: Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@...sung.com>
> ---
>  drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c
> index 32d9fe61a225..95669ece050f 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c
> @@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ static int iproc_rng200_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	priv->rng.read = iproc_rng200_read,
>  	priv->rng.init = iproc_rng200_init,
>  	priv->rng.cleanup = iproc_rng200_cleanup,
> +	priv->rng.quality = 1000,
>  
>  	/* Register driver */
>  	ret = devm_hwrng_register(dev, &priv->rng);
> 

-- 
Best regards,
Kamil Konieczny
Samsung R&D Institute Poland