From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] random number generator fixes for 5.18-rc1
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 17:23:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220331212352.182168-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> (raw)
Hi Linus,
Please pull 5 small patches for 5.18-rc1:
- If a hardware random number generator passes a sufficiently large chunk of
entropy to random.c during early boot, we now skip the "fast_init" business
and let it initialize the RNG. This makes CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER=y
actually useful.
- We already have the command line `random.trust_cpu=0/1` option for RDRAND,
which let distros enable CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU=y while placating concerns
of more paranoid users. Now we add `random.trust_bootloader=0/1` so that
distros can similarly enable CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER=y.
- Re-add a comment that got removed by accident in the recent revert.
- Add the spec-compliant ACPI CID for vmgenid, which Microsoft added to the
vmgenid spec at Ard's request during earlier review.
- Restore build-time randomness via the latent entropy plugin, which was lost
when we transitioned to using a hash function.
Thanks,
Jason
PS: I noticed that for my previous pull request, in your merge commit, you
replaced my numbered list with a bulleted list, and even went through the
trouble of adjusting the irregular spacing caused by numbers >9. Impressed by
this wild attention to detail, and imagining you clickity-clacking away in
uemacs, I'll stick to hyphen-bullets now.
The following changes since commit 34af78c4e616c359ed428d79fe4758a35d2c5473:
Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu (2022-03-24 19:48:57 -0700)
are available in the Git repository at:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random.git tags/random-5.18-rc1-for-linus
for you to fetch changes up to 1754abb3e7583c570666fa1e1ee5b317e88c89a0:
random: mix build-time latent entropy into pool at init (2022-03-31 16:43:27 -0400)
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Random number generator fixes for Linux 5.18-rc1.
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Jason A. Donenfeld (4):
random: skip fast_init if hwrng provides large chunk of entropy
random: treat bootloader trust toggle the same way as cpu trust toggle
random: re-add removed comment about get_random_{u32,u64} reseeding
random: mix build-time latent entropy into pool at init
Michael Kelley (1):
virt: vmgenid: recognize new CID added by Hyper-V
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++
drivers/char/Kconfig | 3 ++-
drivers/char/random.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
drivers/virt/vmgenid.c | 1 +
4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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2022-03-31 21:23 Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2022-03-31 21:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-31 21:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-31 21:55 ` pr-tracker-bot
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