Commit 211db342 authored by Jason A. Donenfeld's avatar Jason A. Donenfeld Committed by Zheng Zengkai
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random: skip fast_init if hwrng provides large chunk of entropy

stable inclusion
from stable-v5.10.119
commit 7cb6782146b88cb020b0b0d37e0a56d8fc6b134c
category: bugfix
bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I5L6BB

Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=7cb6782146b88cb020b0b0d37e0a56d8fc6b134c



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commit af704c85 upstream.

At boot time, EFI calls add_bootloader_randomness(), which in turn calls
add_hwgenerator_randomness(). Currently add_hwgenerator_randomness()
feeds the first 64 bytes of randomness to the "fast init"
non-crypto-grade phase. But if add_hwgenerator_randomness() gets called
with more than POOL_MIN_BITS of entropy, there's no point in passing it
off to the "fast init" stage, since that's enough entropy to bootstrap
the real RNG. The "fast init" stage is just there to provide _something_
in the case where we don't have enough entropy to properly bootstrap the
RNG. But if we do have enough entropy to bootstrap the RNG, the current
logic doesn't serve a purpose. So, in the case where we're passed
greater than or equal to POOL_MIN_BITS of entropy, this commit makes us
skip the "fast init" phase.

Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarZheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com>
Acked-by: default avatarXie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
parent ac91c75b
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