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author | Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> | 2022-04-08 18:03:13 +0200 |
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committer | Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> | 2022-05-13 23:59:23 +0200 |
commit | 6d01238623faa9425f820353d2066baf6c9dc872 (patch) | |
tree | 45a3f7d324fd32178258080713d6d038a3511be2 /arch | |
parent | 0f392c95391f2d708b12971a07edaa7973f9eece (diff) | |
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riscv: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h index 507cae273bc6..d6a7428f6248 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h @@ -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() |