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Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] ARM: arm64: Add SMCCC TRNG entropy service

From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-01-21 18:03:54
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 02:15:59PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 at 14:01, Will Deacon [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 10:34:48 +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
quoted
a fix to v5, now *really* fixing the wrong priority of SMCCC vs. RNDR
in arch_get_random_seed_long_early(). Apologies for messing this up
in v5 and thanks to broonie for being on the watch!

Will, Catalin: it would be much appreciated if you could consider taking
patch 1/5. This contains the common definitions, and is a prerequisite
for every other patch, although they are somewhat independent and likely
will need to go through different subsystems.

[...]
Applied the first patch only to arm64 (for-next/rng), thanks!

[1/5] firmware: smccc: Add SMCCC TRNG function call IDs
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/67c6bb56b649

What's the plan for the rest of the series, and I think the related
change over at [1]?
Given that Ted seems to have lost interest in /dev/random patches, I
was hoping [1] could be taken via the arm64 tree instead. Without this
patch, I don't think we should expose the SMCCC RNG interface via
arch_get_random_seed(), given how insanely often it will be called in
that case.
Ok, let's give that a shot -- I'll additionally pick patches 2 and 4 out
of this series, and merge in the /dev/random change on its own branch in
case there are any late objections.

Will

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