Re: [PATCH 2/6] hwrng: imx-rngc - use automatic seeding

[PrasannaKumar Muralidharan]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 16:31, Martin Kaiser <martin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The rngc requires a new seed for its prng after generating 2^20 160-bit
> words of random data. At the moment, we seed the prng only once during
> initalisation.
>
> Set the rngc to auto seed mode so that it kicks off the internal
> reseeding operation when a new seed is required.
>
> Keep the manual calculation of the initial seed when the device is
> probed and switch to automatic seeding afterwards.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/char/hw_random/imx-rngc.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/imx-rngc.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/imx-rngc.c
> index 0576801944fd..903894518c8d 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/imx-rngc.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/imx-rngc.c
> @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
>
>  #define RNGC_CTRL_MASK_ERROR           0x00000040
>  #define RNGC_CTRL_MASK_DONE            0x00000020
> +#define RNGC_CTRL_AUTO_SEED            0x00000010
>
>  #define RNGC_STATUS_ERROR              0x00010000
>  #define RNGC_STATUS_FIFO_LEVEL_MASK    0x00000f00
> @@ -167,7 +168,7 @@ static irqreturn_t imx_rngc_irq(int irq, void *priv)
>  static int imx_rngc_init(struct hwrng *rng)
>  {
>         struct imx_rngc *rngc = container_of(rng, struct imx_rngc, rng);
> -       u32 cmd;
> +       u32 cmd, ctrl;
>         int ret;
>
>         /* clear error */
> @@ -192,7 +193,18 @@ static int imx_rngc_init(struct hwrng *rng)
>
>         } while (rngc->err_reg == RNGC_ERROR_STATUS_STAT_ERR);
>
> -       return rngc->err_reg ? -EIO : 0;
> +       if (rngc->err_reg)
> +               return -EIO;
> +
> +       /*
> +        * enable automatic seeding, the rngc creates a new seed automatically
> +        * after serving 2^20 random 160-bit words
> +        */
> +       ctrl = readl(rngc->base + RNGC_CONTROL);
> +       ctrl |= RNGC_CTRL_AUTO_SEED;
> +       writel(ctrl, rngc->base + RNGC_CONTROL);
> +
> +       return 0;
>  }
>
>  static int imx_rngc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> --
> 2.20.1
>

Reviewed-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@xxxxxxxxx>