Commit ff8a8f59 authored by Jason A. Donenfeld's avatar Jason A. Donenfeld

arm: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero

In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or
similar, falling back to returning 0 is really not the best we can do.
Instead, at least calling random_get_entropy_fallback() would be
preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even
falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though
random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision or guaranteed to
be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all the time is
better than returning zero all the time.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRussell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
parent 1c99c6a7
......@@ -11,5 +11,6 @@
typedef unsigned long cycles_t;
#define get_cycles() ({ cycles_t c; read_current_timer(&c) ? 0 : c; })
#define random_get_entropy() (((unsigned long)get_cycles()) ?: random_get_entropy_fallback())
#endif
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