riscv: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero
authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Fri, 8 Apr 2022 16:03:13 +0000 (18:03 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 30 May 2022 07:29:13 +0000 (09:29 +0200)
commit 6d01238623faa9425f820353d2066baf6c9dc872 upstream.

In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or
similar, falling back to returning 0 is really not the best we can do.
Instead, at least calling random_get_entropy_fallback() would be
preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even
falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though
random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision or guaranteed to
be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all the time is
better than returning zero all the time.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h

index 507cae2..d6a7428 100644 (file)
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static inline u32 get_cycles_hi(void)
 static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
 {
        if (unlikely(clint_time_val == NULL))
-               return 0;
+               return random_get_entropy_fallback();
        return get_cycles();
 }
 #define random_get_entropy()   random_get_entropy()