[PATCH] rockchip: board: Increase rng-seed size to make it sufficient for modern Linux
Alex ThreeD
alexthreed at gmail.com
Mon Oct 14 12:26:14 CEST 2024
On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 12:10 AM Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> Let's make this override-able via environment variable, because this
> might be growing in the future again. Does this work ?
>
> size_t len = env_get_ulong("kaslrseed_size", 10, 32);
Maybe `env_get_hex("rng_seed_size", 32)` would be better? As most other env are
hexadecimal.
Actually it seems that entropy required to init pool early has decreased in
Linux 5.19 from 64 bytes (2 * CHACHA_KEY_SIZE) to 32 bytes
(BLAKE2S_HASH_SIZE)
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.18/source/drivers/char/random.c#L236
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.19/source/drivers/char/random.c#L551
Anyway config knob should not harm.
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