Re: [PATCH v2] wcn36xx: Add RX frame SNR as a source of system entropy
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Date: 2022-09-14 23:58:03
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On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 10:28:41PM +0100, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
The signal-to-noise-ratio SNR is returned by the wcn36xx firmware for each
received frame. SNR represents all of the unwanted interference signal
after filtering out the fundamental frequency and harmonics of the
frequency.
Noise can come from various electromagnetic sources, from temperature
affecting the performance hardware components or quantization effects
converting from analog to digital domains.
The SNR value returned by the WiFi firmware then is a good source of
entropy.
Other WiFi drivers offer up the noise component of the FFT as an entropy
source for the random pool e.g.
commit 2aa56cca3571 ("ath9k: Mix the received FFT bins to the random pool")
I attended Jason's talk on sources of randomness at Plumbers and it
occurred to me that SNR is a reasonable candidate to add.Neat!
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/txrx.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/txrx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/txrx.c index 8da3955995b6e..b73229776af8b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/txrx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/txrx.c@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt +#include <linux/random.h> #include "txrx.h" static inline int get_rssi0(struct wcn36xx_rx_bd *bd)@@ -297,6 +298,8 @@ static void wcn36xx_update_survey(struct wcn36xx *wcn, int rssi, int snr, wcn->chan_survey[idx].rssi = rssi; wcn->chan_survey[idx].snr = snr; spin_unlock(&wcn->survey_lock); + + add_device_randomness(&snr, sizeof(s8));
Won't this break on big endian? Just have an assignment handle it:
u8 snr_sample = snr & 0xff;
add_device_randomness(&snr_sample, sizeof(snr_sample);
That & 0xff is redundant, but it doesn't hurt to be explicit.
Jason