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Message-ID: <980f8828-1cf8-4ff2-a0d2-f6c9739a7dcc@amd.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:50:40 -0500
From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>
To: Mikhail Paulyshka <me@...aill.net>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86/rdrand: implement sanity check for RDSEED
On 3/12/2025 07:31, Mikhail Paulyshka wrote:
> On the AMD Cyan Skillfish (Family 0x17 Model 0x47 Stepping 0x0), which
> is a Zen2-based APU found on the AMD BC-250 board, there is a situation
> where RDRAND works fine, but RDSEED generates FF. This leads to some
> applications that use RDSEED to generate random numbers (such as
> Qt and KDE) into a nearly unusable state.
>
> Although AMD has fixed the Zen2 RDRAND issues in 2019 with a microcode update,
> no such update has been released for the Family 0x17 Model 0x47 core.
>
> This patchset introduces an separate sanity check for RDSEED and hides the
> RDSEED and RDRAND from CPUID on AMD platforms in the case of a malfunction.
>
> Mikhail Paulyshka (2):
> x86/rdrand: implement sanity check for RDSEED
> x86/rdrand: hide RDRAND and RDSEED from CPUID in case of a malfunction
>
> arch/x86/include/asm/archrandom.h | 1 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 1 +
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 1 +
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/rdrand.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 1 +
> 5 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
Can you please share more about the BIOS firmware version on your device?
/sys/class/dmi/id/bios_version
Thanks,
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