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| H A D | efi.c | diff 636259880a7e7d3446a707dddebc799da94bdd0b Sat Nov 12 15:32:31 CST 2016 Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> efi: Add support for seeding the RNG from a UEFI config table
Specify a Linux specific UEFI configuration table that carries some
random bits, and use the contents during early boot to seed the kernel's
random number generator. This allows much strong random numbers to be
generated early on.
The entropy is fed to the kernel using add_device_randomness(), which is
documented as being appropriate for being called very early.
Since UEFI configuration tables may also be consumed by kexec'd kernels,
register a reboot notifier that updates the seed in the table.
Note that the config table could be generated by the EFI stub or by any
other UEFI driver or application (e.g., GRUB), but the random seed table
GUID and the associated functionality should be considered an internal
kernel interface (unless it is promoted to ABI later on)
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161112213237.8804-4-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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| /openbmc/linux/include/linux/ |
| H A D | efi.h | diff 636259880a7e7d3446a707dddebc799da94bdd0b Sat Nov 12 15:32:31 CST 2016 Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> efi: Add support for seeding the RNG from a UEFI config table
Specify a Linux specific UEFI configuration table that carries some
random bits, and use the contents during early boot to seed the kernel's
random number generator. This allows much strong random numbers to be
generated early on.
The entropy is fed to the kernel using add_device_randomness(), which is
documented as being appropriate for being called very early.
Since UEFI configuration tables may also be consumed by kexec'd kernels,
register a reboot notifier that updates the seed in the table.
Note that the config table could be generated by the EFI stub or by any
other UEFI driver or application (e.g., GRUB), but the random seed table
GUID and the associated functionality should be considered an internal
kernel interface (unless it is promoted to ABI later on)
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161112213237.8804-4-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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