From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757122Ab2HOT4B (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:56:01 -0400 Received: from mail1.windriver.com ([147.11.146.13]:63184 "EHLO mail1.windriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932246Ab2HOTxD (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:53:03 -0400 From: Paul Gortmaker To: , CC: Mark Brown , "Theodore Ts'o" , Paul Gortmaker Subject: [v2.6.34-stable 163/165] rtc: wm831x: Feed the write counter into device_add_randomness() Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:48:27 -0400 Message-ID: <1345060109-9187-164-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.12.rc2 In-Reply-To: <1345060109-9187-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> References: <1345060109-9187-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Mark Brown ------------------- This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment. ------------------- commit 9dccf55f4cb011a7552a8a2749a580662f5ed8ed upstream. The tamper evident features of the RTC include the "write counter" which is a pseudo-random number regenerated whenever we set the RTC. Since this value is unpredictable it should provide some useful seeding to the random number generator. Only do this on boot since the goal is to seed the pool rather than add useful entropy. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker --- drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c index b16cfe5..dce35ed 100644 --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ #include #include #include - +#include /* * R16416 (0x4020) - RTC Write Counter @@ -96,6 +96,26 @@ struct wm831x_rtc { unsigned int alarm_enabled:1; }; +static void wm831x_rtc_add_randomness(struct wm831x *wm831x) +{ + int ret; + u16 reg; + + /* + * The write counter contains a pseudo-random number which is + * regenerated every time we set the RTC so it should be a + * useful per-system source of entropy. + */ + ret = wm831x_reg_read(wm831x, WM831X_RTC_WRITE_COUNTER); + if (ret >= 0) { + reg = ret; + add_device_randomness(®, sizeof(reg)); + } else { + dev_warn(wm831x->dev, "Failed to read RTC write counter: %d\n", + ret); + } +} + /* * Read current time and date in RTC */ @@ -465,6 +485,8 @@ static int wm831x_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) alm_irq, ret); } + wm831x_rtc_add_randomness(wm831x); + return 0; err: -- 1.7.12.rc2