Date:   Thu, 9 Feb 2023 08:46:20 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc:     qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
        x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Dov Murik <dovmurik@linux.ibm.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
        Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
        Daniel P =?iso-8859-1?Q?=2E_Berrang=E9?= <berrange@redhat.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
        Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
        Philippe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu-Daud=E9?= <philmd@linaro.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] revert RNG seed mess
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On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 04:12:23PM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> All attempts to fix up passing RNG seed via setup_data entry failed.
> Let's just rip out all of it.  We'll start over.
> 
> 
> Warning: all I did was git revert the relevant patches and resolve the
> (trivial) conflicts. Not even compiled - it's almost midnight here.
> 
> Jason this is the kind of approach I'd like to see, not yet another
> pointer math rich patch I need to spend time reviewing. Just get us back
> to where we started. We can redo "x86: use typedef for SetupData struct"
> later if we want, it's benign.
> 
> Could you do something like this pls?
> Or test and ack if this patchset happens to work by luck.
> 
> Michael S. Tsirkin (7):
>   Revert "x86: don't let decompressed kernel image clobber setup_data"
>   Revert "x86: do not re-randomize RNG seed on snapshot load"
>   Revert "x86: re-initialize RNG seed when selecting kernel"
>   Revert "x86: reinitialize RNG seed on system reboot"
>   Revert "x86: use typedef for SetupData struct"
>   Revert "x86: return modified setup_data only if read as memory, not as
>     file"
>   Revert "hw/i386: pass RNG seed via setup_data entry"
> 
>  include/hw/i386/microvm.h |   5 +-
>  include/hw/i386/pc.h      |   3 -
>  include/hw/i386/x86.h     |   3 +-
>  include/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.h |  31 ----------
>  hw/i386/microvm.c         |  17 ++----
>  hw/i386/pc.c              |   4 +-
>  hw/i386/pc_piix.c         |   2 -
>  hw/i386/pc_q35.c          |   2 -
>  hw/i386/x86.c             | 122 ++++++++++----------------------------
>  hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c         |  21 ++-----
>  10 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 161 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> MST
> 

For the record, all three of the cases that I tested (i386 no EFI,
x86_64 with and without EFI) worked fine with this series. In case it is
useful:

Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

Cheers,
Nathan