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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2013-03-05 10:07:08 +1030
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-03-14 11:29:42 -0700
commit681e3b15fef858a9512d5fb2baceb85b0913385f (patch)
tree305a75805b006c16e5ced9bd6a356fb32607ca87 /drivers/char
parent7ae6c92933a962e3ff8b3999f88b5c7c86841b7f (diff)
hw_random: make buffer usable in scatterlist.
commit f7f154f1246ccc5a0a7e9ce50932627d60a0c878 upstream. virtio_rng feeds the randomness buffer handed by the core directly into the scatterlist, since commit bb347d98079a547e80bd4722dee1de61e4dca0e8. However, if CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=m, the static buffer isn't a linear address (at least on most archs). We could fix this in virtio_rng, but it's actually far easier to just do it in the core as virtio_rng would have to allocate a buffer every time (it doesn't know how much the core will want to read). Reported-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> Tested-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/hw_random/core.c19
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index 1bafb40ec8a2..69ae5972713c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -52,8 +53,12 @@ static struct hwrng *current_rng;
static LIST_HEAD(rng_list);
static DEFINE_MUTEX(rng_mutex);
static int data_avail;
-static u8 rng_buffer[SMP_CACHE_BYTES < 32 ? 32 : SMP_CACHE_BYTES]
- __cacheline_aligned;
+static u8 *rng_buffer;
+
+static size_t rng_buffer_size(void)
+{
+ return SMP_CACHE_BYTES < 32 ? 32 : SMP_CACHE_BYTES;
+}
static inline int hwrng_init(struct hwrng *rng)
{
@@ -116,7 +121,7 @@ static ssize_t rng_dev_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
if (!data_avail) {
bytes_read = rng_get_data(current_rng, rng_buffer,
- sizeof(rng_buffer),
+ rng_buffer_size(),
!(filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK));
if (bytes_read < 0) {
err = bytes_read;
@@ -307,6 +312,14 @@ int hwrng_register(struct hwrng *rng)
mutex_lock(&rng_mutex);
+ /* kmalloc makes this safe for virt_to_page() in virtio_rng.c */
+ err = -ENOMEM;
+ if (!rng_buffer) {
+ rng_buffer = kmalloc(rng_buffer_size(), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!rng_buffer)
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
+
/* Must not register two RNGs with the same name. */
err = -EEXIST;
list_for_each_entry(tmp, &rng_list, list) {