[PATCH] random: do not export add_vmfork_randomness() unless needed

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Tue Mar 01 2022 - 09:25:41 EST


Since add_vmfork_randomness() is only called from vmgenid.o, we can
guard it in CONFIG_VMGENID, similarly to how we do with
add_disk_randomness() and CONFIG_BLOCK. If we ever have multiple things
calling into add_vmfork_randomness(), we can add another shared Kconfig
symbol for that, but for now, this is good enough. Even though
add_vmfork_randomess() is a pretty small function, removing it means
that there are only calls to crng_reseed(false) and none to
crng_reseed(true), which means the compiler can constant propagate it
and simply crng_reseed().

Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/random.c | 2 ++
include/linux/random.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 99cf9e829d1e..662b7edb3b7a 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1169,6 +1169,7 @@ void add_bootloader_randomness(const void *buf, size_t size)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_bootloader_randomness);

+#ifdef CONFIG_VMGENID
/*
* Handle a new unique VM ID, which is unique, not secret, so we
* don't credit it, but we do immediately force a reseed after so
@@ -1183,6 +1184,7 @@ void add_vmfork_randomness(const void *unique_vm_id, size_t size)
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_vmfork_randomness);
+#endif

struct fast_pool {
union {
diff --git a/include/linux/random.h b/include/linux/random.h
index 117468f3a92e..e6225ac98572 100644
--- a/include/linux/random.h
+++ b/include/linux/random.h
@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ extern void add_input_randomness(unsigned int type, unsigned int code,
extern void add_interrupt_randomness(int irq) __latent_entropy;
extern void add_hwgenerator_randomness(const void *buffer, size_t count,
size_t entropy);
+#ifdef CONFIG_VMGENID
extern void add_vmfork_randomness(const void *unique_vm_id, size_t size);
+#endif

extern void get_random_bytes(void *buf, size_t nbytes);
extern int wait_for_random_bytes(void);
--
2.35.1