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authorLinus Torvalds2019-09-16 14:31:40 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2019-09-16 14:31:40 -0700
commite77fafe9afb53b7f4d8176c5cd5c10c43a905bc8 (patch)
tree828ad771a2951f7ac06111c3a9a30e0f368a9b5e /drivers/char
parent52a5525214d0d612160154d902956eca0558b7c0 (diff)
parente376897f424a1c807779a2635f62eb02d7e382f9 (diff)
Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon: "Although there isn't tonnes of code in terms of line count, there are a fair few headline features which I've noted both in the tag and also in the merge commits when I pulled everything together. The part I'm most pleased with is that we had 35 contributors this time around, which feels like a big jump from the usual small group of core arm64 arch developers. Hopefully they all enjoyed it so much that they'll continue to contribute, but we'll see. It's probably worth highlighting that we've pulled in a branch from the risc-v folks which moves our CPU topology code out to where it can be shared with others. Summary: - 52-bit virtual addressing in the kernel - New ABI to allow tagged user pointers to be dereferenced by syscalls - Early RNG seeding by the bootloader - Improve robustness of SMP boot - Fix TLB invalidation in light of recent architectural clarifications - Support for i.MX8 DDR PMU - Remove direct LSE instruction patching in favour of static keys - Function error injection using kprobes - Support for the PPTT "thread" flag introduced by ACPI 6.3 - Move PSCI idle code into proper cpuidle driver - Relaxation of implicit I/O memory barriers - Build with RELR relocations when toolchain supports them - Numerous cleanups and non-critical fixes" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (114 commits) arm64: remove __iounmap arm64: atomics: Use K constraint when toolchain appears to support it arm64: atomics: Undefine internal macros after use arm64: lse: Make ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS depend on JUMP_LABEL arm64: asm: Kill 'asm/atomic_arch.h' arm64: lse: Remove unused 'alt_lse' assembly macro arm64: atomics: Remove atomic_ll_sc compilation unit arm64: avoid using hard-coded registers for LSE atomics arm64: atomics: avoid out-of-line ll/sc atomics arm64: Use correct ll/sc atomic constraints jump_label: Don't warn on __exit jump entries docs/perf: Add documentation for the i.MX8 DDR PMU perf/imx_ddr: Add support for AXI ID filtering arm64: kpti: ensure patched kernel text is fetched from PoU arm64: fix fixmap copy for 16K pages and 48-bit VA perf/smmuv3: Validate groups for global filtering perf/smmuv3: Validate group size arm64: Relax Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.rst arm64: kvm: Replace hardcoded '1' with SYS_PAR_EL1_F arm64: mm: Ignore spurious translation faults taken from the kernel ...
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/Kconfig9
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c14
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
index 3e866885a405..2794f4b3f62d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
@@ -573,3 +573,12 @@ config RANDOM_TRUST_CPU
has not installed a hidden back door to compromise the CPU's
random number generation facilities. This can also be configured
at boot with "random.trust_cpu=on/off".
+
+config RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER
+ bool "Trust the bootloader to initialize Linux's CRNG"
+ help
+ Some bootloaders can provide entropy to increase the kernel's initial
+ device randomness. Say Y here to assume the entropy provided by the
+ booloader is trustworthy so it will be added to the kernel's entropy
+ pool. Otherwise, say N here so it will be regarded as device input that
+ only mixes the entropy pool. \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 5d5ea4ce1442..566922df4b7b 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -2445,3 +2445,17 @@ void add_hwgenerator_randomness(const char *buffer, size_t count,
credit_entropy_bits(poolp, entropy);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_hwgenerator_randomness);
+
+/* Handle random seed passed by bootloader.
+ * If the seed is trustworthy, it would be regarded as hardware RNGs. Otherwise
+ * it would be regarded as device data.
+ * The decision is controlled by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER.
+ */
+void add_bootloader_randomness(const void *buf, unsigned int size)
+{
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER))
+ add_hwgenerator_randomness(buf, size, size * 8);
+ else
+ add_device_randomness(buf, size);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_bootloader_randomness); \ No newline at end of file