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From: Michael =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Niew=F6hner?= To: Louis Collard Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jarkko Sakkinen , Andrey Pronin , Jason Gunthorpe , "David R. Bild" In-Reply-To: References: <20180926032455.224600-1-louiscollard@chromium.org> <568ea3447a8116ef460d191bf3599e2761bca3a5.camel@mniewoehner.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 18:11:31 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 3.28.5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-ZohoMailClient: External Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2018-12-13 at 12:50 +0800, Louis Collard wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 4:15 AM Michael Niewöhner > wrote: > > > > Hi Louis, > > > > On Wed, 2018-09-26 at 11:24 +0800, Louis Collard wrote: > > > Some systems, for example embedded systems, do not generate > > > enough entropy on boot through interrupts, and boot may be blocked for > > > several minutes waiting for a call to getrandom to complete. > > > > > > Currently, random data is read from a hwrng when it is registered, > > > and is loaded into primary_crng. This data is treated in the same > > > way as data that is device-specific but otherwise unchanging, and > > > so primary_crng cannot become initialized with the data from the > > > hwrng. > > > > > > This change causes the data initially read from the hwrng to be > > > treated the same as subsequent data that is read from the hwrng if > > > it's quality score is non-zero. > > > > > > The implications of this are: > > > > > > The data read from hwrng can cause primary_crng to become > > > initialized, therefore avoiding problems of getrandom blocking > > > on boot. > > > > > > Calls to getrandom (with GRND_RANDOM) may be using entropy > > > exclusively (or in practise, almost exclusively) from the hwrng. > > > > > > Regarding the latter point; this behavior is the same as if a > > > user specified a quality score of 1 (bit of entropy per 1024 bits) > > > so hopefully this is not too scary a change to make. > > > > > > This change is the result of the discussion here: > > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10453893/ > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Louis Collard > > > Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen > > > --- > > > drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 9 +++++++-- > > > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c > > > index aaf9e5afaad4..47f358aa0c3d 100644 > > > --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c > > > +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c > > > @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ > > > #include > > > #include > > > #include > > > +#include > > > > > > #define RNG_MODULE_NAME "hw_random" > > > > > > @@ -64,13 +65,17 @@ static size_t rng_buffer_size(void) > > > static void add_early_randomness(struct hwrng *rng) > > > { > > > int bytes_read; > > > - size_t size = min_t(size_t, 16, rng_buffer_size()); > > > + /* Read enough to initialize crng. */ > > > + size_t size = 2*CHACHA20_KEY_SIZE; > > > > > > mutex_lock(&reading_mutex); > > > bytes_read = rng_get_data(rng, rng_buffer, size, 1); > > > mutex_unlock(&reading_mutex); > > > if (bytes_read > 0) > > > - add_device_randomness(rng_buffer, bytes_read); > > > + /* Allow crng to become initialized, but do not add > > > + * entropy to the pool. > > > + */ > > > + add_hwgenerator_randomness(rng_buffer, bytes_read, 0); > > > } > > > > > > static inline void cleanup_rng(struct kref *kref) > > > > I found your patch by chance, searching for a solution for crng init delay > > on my > > headless machine. Unfortunately it hardly makes any difference for me. With > > the > > patch the system hangs for about 80s instead of 120s until the "crng init > > done" > > message.In contrast, doing a `cat /dev/hwrng >/dev/random` or running rngd > > initializes the crng instantly. > > > > Isn't that delay the problem this patch tries to fix? Any idea what is wrong > > here? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Best regards > > Michael > > > > > > Yes that is the problem this is trying to address. My guess would be > rng_get_data() is not returning as much data as requested, so the > delay is reduced but not eliminated. Looking at implementation of > rng_get_data() it appears this could be caused by device support for > read() vs data_read(). I don't have a good feel for whether looping to > retrieve more data here would be acceptable, it is certainly a bigger > change than currently proposed. > > Thanks, > Louis Hi Louis, that is what I thought first, too, but I was able to verify that 64 bytes are read as expected. It seems this is exactly what David noticed in your discussion about the quality module parameter (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10453893/#22130681): > Interesting. > > add_hwgenereator_randomness() will call crng_fast_load(), regardless > of entropy estimate/quality, if crng_init is 0. So initializing > crng_init from the hwrng, regardless of quality, is already the > intent. > > But hw_random only calls add_hwgenerator_randomness() if > current_quality > 0, via the hwrng_fillfn() kthread. > > All that to say, I agree. add_early_randomness() should (indirectly) > call crng_fast_load(), like add_hwgenerator_randomness() does. When I set rng_quality=1024, the crng does get initialized more or less instantly. dmesg with default rng_quality=0: [ 0.003831] ACPI: TPM2 0x000000009E0B7F70 000034 (v03 LENOVO TC- S06 00001260 AMI 00000000) [ 0.161803] random: get_random_bytes called from start_kernel+0x8f/0x50e with crng_init=0 [ 3.590433] tpm_tis MSFT0101:00: 2.0 TPM (device-id 0xFE, rev-id 2) [ 3.644148] random: fast init done [ 85.183006] random: crng init done dmesg with rng_quality patch: [ 0.003837] ACPI: TPM2 0x000000009E0B7F70 000034 (v03 LENOVO TC- S06 00001260 AMI 00000000) [ 0.162136] random: get_random_bytes called from start_kernel+0x8f/0x50e with crng_init=0 [ 3.582675] tpm_tis MSFT0101:00: 2.0 TPM (device-id 0xFE, rev-id 2) [ 3.636408] random: fast init done [ 3.650355] random: crng init done Test patch: diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c index f08949a5f678..59e5a8753ba1 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c @@ -214,6 +214,8 @@ static int tpm_tis_init(struct device *dev, struct tpm_info *tpm_info) if (itpm || is_itpm(ACPI_COMPANION(dev))) phy->priv.flags |= TPM_TIS_ITPM_WORKAROUND; + priv->rng_quality = 1; + return tpm_tis_core_init(dev, &phy->priv, irq, &tpm_tcg, ACPI_HANDLE(dev)); } Thanks Michael