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Date:   Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:25:09 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: discourage use of archrandom outside of rng
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 01:10:38PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Borislav pointed out during the review of "random: handle archrandom
> with multiple longs" that people might actually use this function, which
> might not be good because the function has surprising semantics. This of
> course was also the case before that patch, and indeed RDSEED-like
> functions across architectures often behave surprisingly, failing often.
> While random.c has been written specifically to work with that behavior,
> not much else is well equipped for that.
> 
> So add a comment suggesting that this is not for general consumption.
> Fortunately, nobody uses this for general consumption anyway, and people
> who try quickly find themselves in trouble. But adding this comment out
> of an abundance of caution was nonetheless suggested, and it at least
> means there will be easier justification for cleaning up potential
> misuses of the function later.
> 
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/archrandom.h   | 13 +++++++++++++
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/archrandom.h |  8 ++++++++
>  arch/s390/include/asm/archrandom.h    |  8 ++++++++
>  arch/um/include/asm/archrandom.h      |  8 ++++++++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/archrandom.h     |  9 ++++++---
>  include/asm-generic/archrandom.h      |  8 ++++++++
>  6 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

Thx.

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    Boris.

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