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authorMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>2012-07-05 20:19:17 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-08-15 08:10:29 -0700
commitec947d6fbb66bc4e55eef7550b4fc835090a42be (patch)
tree3f374691c83a64a703e7f1fb6a4ed57c0e95a1de
parentba6a40b952f6384eaec33af9f6c31d3a67ac073e (diff)
rtc: wm831x: Feed the write counter into device_add_randomness()
commit 9dccf55f4cb011a7552a8a2749a580662f5ed8ed upstream. The tamper evident features of the RTC include the "write counter" which is a pseudo-random number regenerated whenever we set the RTC. Since this value is unpredictable it should provide some useful seeding to the random number generator. Only do this on boot since the goal is to seed the pool rather than add useful entropy. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c24
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c
index 3b6e6a67e765..41c06fe5415c 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
#include <linux/mfd/wm831x/core.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
-
+#include <linux/random.h>
/*
* R16416 (0x4020) - RTC Write Counter
@@ -96,6 +96,26 @@ struct wm831x_rtc {
unsigned int alarm_enabled:1;
};
+static void wm831x_rtc_add_randomness(struct wm831x *wm831x)
+{
+ int ret;
+ u16 reg;
+
+ /*
+ * The write counter contains a pseudo-random number which is
+ * regenerated every time we set the RTC so it should be a
+ * useful per-system source of entropy.
+ */
+ ret = wm831x_reg_read(wm831x, WM831X_RTC_WRITE_COUNTER);
+ if (ret >= 0) {
+ reg = ret;
+ add_device_randomness(&reg, sizeof(reg));
+ } else {
+ dev_warn(wm831x->dev, "Failed to read RTC write counter: %d\n",
+ ret);
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Read current time and date in RTC
*/
@@ -431,6 +451,8 @@ static int wm831x_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
alm_irq, ret);
}
+ wm831x_rtc_add_randomness(wm831x);
+
return 0;
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