From 78887832e76541f77169a24ac238fccb51059b63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laurent Vivier Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:54:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] hwrng: core - don't wait on add_early_randomness() add_early_randomness() is called by hwrng_register() when the hardware is added. If this hardware and its module are present at boot, and if there is no data available the boot hangs until data are available and can't be interrupted. For instance, in the case of virtio-rng, in some cases the host can be not able to provide enough entropy for all the guests. We can have two easy ways to reproduce the problem but they rely on misconfiguration of the hypervisor or the egd daemon: - if virtio-rng device is configured to connect to the egd daemon of the host but when the virtio-rng driver asks for data the daemon is not connected, - if virtio-rng device is configured to connect to the egd daemon of the host but the egd daemon doesn't provide data. The guest kernel will hang at boot until the virtio-rng driver provides enough data. To avoid that, call rng_get_data() in non-blocking mode (wait=0) from add_early_randomness(). Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier Fixes: d9e797261933 ("hwrng: add randomness to system from rng...") Cc: Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu --- drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c index bdab5d9af8d2..80b850ef1bf6 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static void add_early_randomness(struct hwrng *rng) size_t size = min_t(size_t, 16, rng_buffer_size()); mutex_lock(&reading_mutex); - bytes_read = rng_get_data(rng, rng_buffer, size, 1); + bytes_read = rng_get_data(rng, rng_buffer, size, 0); mutex_unlock(&reading_mutex); if (bytes_read > 0) add_device_randomness(rng_buffer, bytes_read); -- GitLab