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s390/archrandom: simplify back to earlier design and initialize earlier
authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Fri, 10 Jun 2022 22:20:23 +0000 (00:20 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 7 Jul 2022 15:52:16 +0000 (17:52 +0200)
commited03a650fb573a3b846dfb3b35471aeee0e5d41b
tree1792293c3024d443c059220a4a143ef2c300039f
parentd8bca518d5272fe349e0a722fdb9e3acb661f3f0
s390/archrandom: simplify back to earlier design and initialize earlier

commit e4f74400308cb8abde5fdc9cad609c2aba32110c upstream.

s390x appears to present two RNG interfaces:
- a "TRNG" that gathers entropy using some hardware function; and
- a "DRBG" that takes in a seed and expands it.

Previously, the TRNG was wired up to arch_get_random_{long,int}(), but
it was observed that this was being called really frequently, resulting
in high overhead. So it was changed to be wired up to arch_get_random_
seed_{long,int}(), which was a reasonable decision. Later on, the DRBG
was then wired up to arch_get_random_{long,int}(), with a complicated
buffer filling thread, to control overhead and rate.

Fortunately, none of the performance issues matter much now. The RNG
always attempts to use arch_get_random_seed_{long,int}() first, which
means a complicated implementation of arch_get_random_{long,int}() isn't
really valuable or useful to have around. And it's only used when
reseeding, which means it won't hit the high throughput complications
that were faced before.

So this commit returns to an earlier design of just calling the TRNG in
arch_get_random_seed_{long,int}(), and returning false in arch_get_
random_{long,int}().

Part of what makes the simplification possible is that the RNG now seeds
itself using the TRNG at bootup. But this only works if the TRNG is
detected early in boot, before random_init() is called. So this commit
also causes that check to happen in setup_arch().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Franzki <ifranzki@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Juergen Christ <jchrist@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220610222023.378448-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
Reviewed-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/s390/crypto/arch_random.c
arch/s390/include/asm/archrandom.h
arch/s390/kernel/setup.c