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Commit 73c7733f authored by Jason A. Donenfeld's avatar Jason A. Donenfeld
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random: do not throw away excess input to crng_fast_load



When crng_fast_load() is called by add_hwgenerator_randomness(), we
currently will advance to crng_init==1 once we've acquired 64 bytes, and
then throw away the rest of the buffer. Usually, that is not a problem:
When add_hwgenerator_randomness() gets called via EFI or DT during
setup_arch(), there won't be any IRQ randomness. Therefore, the 64 bytes
passed by EFI exactly matches what is needed to advance to crng_init==1.
Usually, DT seems to pass 64 bytes as well -- with one notable exception
being kexec, which hands over 128 bytes of entropy to the kexec'd kernel.
In that case, we'll advance to crng_init==1 once 64 of those bytes are
consumed by crng_fast_load(), but won't continue onward feeding in bytes
to progress to crng_init==2. This commit fixes the issue by feeding
any leftover bytes into the next phase in add_hwgenerator_randomness().

[linux@dominikbrodowski.net: rewrite commit message]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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