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Commit 248561ad authored by Jason A. Donenfeld's avatar Jason A. Donenfeld
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random: remove get_random_bytes_arch() and add rng_has_arch_random()


The RNG incorporates RDRAND into its state at boot and every time it
reseeds, so there's no reason for callers to use it directly. The
hashing that the RNG does on it is preferable to using the bytes raw.

The only current use case of get_random_bytes_arch() is vsprintf's
siphash key for pointer hashing, which uses it to initialize the pointer
secret earlier than usual if RDRAND is available. In order to replace
this narrow use case, just expose whether RDRAND is mixed into the RNG,
with a new function called rng_has_arch_random(). With that taken care
of, there are no users of get_random_bytes_arch() left, so it can be
removed.

Later, if trust_cpu gets turned on by default (as most distros are
doing), this one use of rng_has_arch_random() can probably go away as
well.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> # for vsprintf.c
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
parent 560181c2
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