[PATCH] mips: allow firmware to pass RNG seed to kernel

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Fri Sep 30 2022 - 10:02:06 EST


Nearly all other firmware environments have some way of passing a RNG
seed to initialize the RNG: DTB's rng-seed, EFI's RNG protocol, m68k's
bootinfo block, x86's setup_data, and so forth. This adds something
similar for MIPS, which will allow various firmware environments,
bootloaders, and hypervisors to pass an RNG seed to initialize the
kernel's RNG.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
index 2ca156a5b231..39c79f67c7a3 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
#include <asm/setup.h>
#include <asm/smp-ops.h>
#include <asm/prom.h>
+#include <asm/fw/fw.h>

#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_ELF_APPENDED_DTB
char __section(".appended_dtb") __appended_dtb[0x100000];
@@ -756,6 +757,24 @@ static void __init prefill_possible_map(void)
static inline void prefill_possible_map(void) {}
#endif

+static void __init setup_rng_seed(void)
+{
+ char *rng_seed_hex = fw_getenv("rngseed");
+ u8 rng_seed[512];
+ size_t len;
+
+ if (!rng_seed_hex)
+ return;
+
+ len = min(sizeof(rng_seed), strlen(rng_seed_hex) / 2);
+ if (hex2bin(rng_seed, rng_seed_hex, len))
+ return;
+
+ add_bootloader_randomness(rng_seed, len);
+ memzero_explicit(rng_seed, len);
+ memzero_explicit(rng_seed_hex, len * 2);
+}
+
void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
{
cpu_probe();
@@ -786,6 +805,8 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
paging_init();

memblock_dump_all();
+
+ setup_rng_seed();
}

unsigned long kernelsp[NR_CPUS];
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