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Commit 18b915ac authored by Dominik Brodowski's avatar Dominik Brodowski Committed by Ingo Molnar
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efi/random: Treat EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL output as bootloader randomness

Commit 428826f5

 ("fdt: add support for rng-seed") introduced
add_bootloader_randomness(), permitting randomness provided by the
bootloader or firmware to be credited as entropy. However, the fact
that the UEFI support code was already wired into the RNG subsystem
via a call to add_device_randomness() was overlooked, and so it was
not converted at the same time.

Note that this UEFI (v2.4 or newer) feature is currently only
implemented for EFI stub booting on ARM, and further note that
CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER must be enabled, and this should be
done only if there indeed is sufficient trust in the bootloader
_and_ its source of randomness.

[ ardb: update commit log ]

Tested-by: default avatarBhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029173755.27149-4-ardb@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 2bb6a816
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