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Mon, 8 Apr 2019 06:55:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.40.204.71] (ovpn-204-71.brq.redhat.com [10.40.204.71]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 209B8D1C6; Mon, 8 Apr 2019 06:55:36 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwrng: core - don't block in add_early_randomness() To: Herbert Xu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Matt Mackall References: <20190329163011.7370-1-lvivier@redhat.com> <20190408063154.7bnt6puawoqtwlgo@gondor.apana.org.au> From: Laurent Vivier Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=lvivier@redhat.com; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= xsFNBFYFJhkBEAC2me7w2+RizYOKZM+vZCx69GTewOwqzHrrHSG07MUAxJ6AY29/+HYf6EY2 WoeuLWDmXE7A3oJoIsRecD6BXHTb0OYS20lS608anr3B0xn5g0BX7es9Mw+hV/pL+63EOCVm SUVTEQwbGQN62guOKnJJJfphbbv82glIC/Ei4Ky8BwZkUuXd7d5NFJKC9/GDrbWdj75cDNQx UZ9XXbXEKY9MHX83Uy7JFoiFDMOVHn55HnncflUncO0zDzY7CxFeQFwYRbsCXOUL9yBtqLer Ky8/yjBskIlNrp0uQSt9LMoMsdSjYLYhvk1StsNPg74+s4u0Q6z45+l8RAsgLw5OLtTa+ePM JyS7OIGNYxAX6eZk1+91a6tnqfyPcMbduxyBaYXn94HUG162BeuyBkbNoIDkB7pCByed1A7q q9/FbuTDwgVGVLYthYSfTtN0Y60OgNkWCMtFwKxRaXt1WFA5ceqinN/XkgA+vf2Ch72zBkJL RBIhfOPFv5f2Hkkj0MvsUXpOWaOjatiu0fpPo6Hw14UEpywke1zN4NKubApQOlNKZZC4hu6/ 8pv2t4HRi7s0K88jQYBRPObjrN5+owtI51xMaYzvPitHQ2053LmgsOdN9EKOqZeHAYG2SmRW LOxYWKX14YkZI5j/TXfKlTpwSMvXho+efN4kgFvFmP6WT+tPnwARAQABzSNMYXVyZW50IFZp dmllciA8bHZpdmllckByZWRoYXQuY29tPsLBeAQTAQIAIgUCVgVQgAIbAwYLCQgHAwIGFQgC CQoLBBYCAwECHgECF4AACgkQ8ww4vT8vvjwpgg//fSGy0Rs/t8cPFuzoY1cex4limJQfReLr SJXCANg9NOWy/bFK5wunj+h/RCFxIFhZcyXveurkBwYikDPUrBoBRoOJY/BHK0iZo7/WQkur 6H5losVZtrotmKOGnP/lJYZ3H6OWvXzdz8LL5hb3TvGOP68K8Bn8UsIaZJoeiKhaNR0sOJyI YYbgFQPWMHfVwHD/U+/gqRhD7apVysxv5by/pKDln1I5v0cRRH6hd8M8oXgKhF2+rAOL7gvh jEHSSWKUlMjC7YwwjSZmUkL+TQyE18e2XBk85X8Da3FznrLiHZFHQ/NzETYxRjnOzD7/kOVy gKD/o7asyWQVU65mh/ECrtjfhtCBSYmIIVkopoLaVJ/kEbVJQegT2P6NgERC/31kmTF69vn8 uQyW11Hk8tyubicByL3/XVBrq4jZdJW3cePNJbTNaT0d/bjMg5zCWHbMErUib2Nellnbg6bc 2HLDe0NLVPuRZhHUHM9hO/JNnHfvgiRQDh6loNOUnm9Iw2YiVgZNnT4soUehMZ7au8PwSl4I KYE4ulJ8RRiydN7fES3IZWmOPlyskp1QMQBD/w16o+lEtY6HSFEzsK3o0vuBRBVp2WKnssVH qeeV01ZHw0bvWKjxVNOksP98eJfWLfV9l9e7s6TaAeySKRRubtJ+21PRuYAxKsaueBfUE7ZT 7zfOwU0EVgUmGQEQALxSQRbl/QOnmssVDxWhHM5TGxl7oLNJms2zmBpcmlrIsn8nNz0rRyxT 460k2niaTwowSRK8KWVDeAW6ZAaWiYjLlTunoKwvF8vP3JyWpBz0diTxL5o+xpvy/Q6YU3BN efdq8Vy3rFsxgW7mMSrI/CxJ667y8ot5DVugeS2NyHfmZlPGE0Nsy7hlebS4liisXOrN3jFz asKyUws3VXek4V65lHwB23BVzsnFMn/bw/rPliqXGcwl8CoJu8dSyrCcd1Ibs0/Inq9S9+t0 VmWiQWfQkz4rvEeTQkp/VfgZ6z98JRW7S6l6eophoWs0/ZyRfOm+QVSqRfFZdxdP2PlGeIFM C3fXJgygXJkFPyWkVElr76JTbtSHsGWbt6xUlYHKXWo+xf9WgtLeby3cfSkEchACrxDrQpj+ Jt/JFP+q997dybkyZ5IoHWuPkn7uZGBrKIHmBunTco1+cKSuRiSCYpBIXZMHCzPgVDjk4viP brV9NwRkmaOxVvye0vctJeWvJ6KA7NoAURplIGCqkCRwg0MmLrfoZnK/gRqVJ/f6adhU1oo6 z4p2/z3PemA0C0ANatgHgBb90cd16AUxpdEQmOCmdNnNJF/3Zt3inzF+NFzHoM5Vwq6rc1JP jfC3oqRLJzqAEHBDjQFlqNR3IFCIAo4SYQRBdAHBCzkM4rWyRhuVABEBAAHCwV8EGAECAAkF AlYFJhkCGwwACgkQ8ww4vT8vvjwg9w//VQrcnVg3TsjEybxDEUBm8dBmnKqcnTBFmxN5FFtI WlEuY8+YMiWRykd8Ln9RJ/98/ghABHz9TN8TRo2b6WimV64FmlVn17Ri6FgFU3xNt9TTEChq AcNg88eYryKsYpFwegGpwUlaUaaGh1m9OrTzcQy+klVfZWaVJ9Nw0keoGRGb8j4XjVpL8+2x OhXKrM1fzzb8JtAuSbuzZSQPDwQEI5CKKxp7zf76J21YeRrEW4WDznPyVcDTa+tz++q2S/Bp P4W98bXCBIuQgs2m+OflERv5c3Ojldp04/S4NEjXEYRWdiCxN7ca5iPml5gLtuvhJMSy36gl U6IW9kn30IWuSoBpTkgV7rLUEhh9Ms82VWW/h2TxL8enfx40PrfbDtWwqRID3WY8jLrjKfTd R3LW8BnUDNkG+c4FzvvGUs8AvuqxxyHbXAfDx9o/jXfPHVRmJVhSmd+hC3mcQ+4iX5bBPBPM oDqSoLt5w9GoQQ6gDVP2ZjTWqwSRMLzNr37rJjZ1pt0DCMMTbiYIUcrhX8eveCJtY7NGWNyx FCRkhxRuGcpwPmRVDwOl39MB3iTsRighiMnijkbLXiKoJ5CDVvX5yicNqYJPKh5MFXN1bvsB kmYiStMRbrD0HoY1kx5/VozBtc70OU0EB8Wrv9hZD+Ofp0T3KOr1RUHvCZoLURfFhSQ= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 08:55:29 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190408063154.7bnt6puawoqtwlgo@gondor.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.11 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.44]); Mon, 08 Apr 2019 06:55:41 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org On 08/04/2019 08:31, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 05:30:11PM +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote: >> If the device is not ready to provide data the kernel will >> be stuck indefinitely in the init function. >> >> This is not a problem if the device is driven using a module, >> but if the driver is linked directly into the kernel then the >> kernel boot sequence hangs. >> >> This can happen with virtio-rng device with rng-egd backend >> with no data provider, for instance with QEMU command line parameters: >> >> ... >> -chardev socket,id=charrng0,host=localhost,port=2345,server,nowait \ >> -object rng-egd,id=objrng0,chardev=charrng0 \ >> -device virtio-rng-pci,rng=objrng0,id=rng0 >> >> To avoid that, we can call rng_get_data() in non blocking mode because >> the function already manages the case where byte_read is >> 0 (if the device is not already initialized). >> >> See also commit d3cc7996473a >> ("hwrng: fetch randomness only after device init") >> >> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier > > I think this is either not a bug (make sure that the user supplies > a RNG source) or it should be addressed in virtio-rng. Yes, I did more investigation and I agree. Thanks, Laurent