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MIPS: KVM: Use prandom_u32_max() to generate tlbwr index
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Emulation of the tlbwr instruction, which writes a TLB entry to a random
index in the TLB, currently uses get_random_bytes() to generate a 4 byte
random number which we then mask to form the index. This is overkill in
a couple of ways:

  - We don't need 4 bytes here since we mask the value to form a 6 bit
    number anyway, so we waste /dev/random entropy generating 3 random
    bytes that are unused.

  - We don't need crypto-grade randomness here - the architecture spec
    allows implementations to use any algorithm & merely encourages that
    some pseudo-randomness be used rather than a simple counter. The
    fast prandom_u32() function fits that criteria well.

So rather than using get_random_bytes() & consuming /dev/random entropy,
switch to using the faster prandom_u32_max() which provides what we need
here whilst also performing the masking/modulo for us.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Reported-by: George Spelvin <lkml@sdf.org>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
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Paul Burton committed Mar 25, 2019
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4 changes: 1 addition & 3 deletions arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c
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Expand Up @@ -1141,9 +1141,7 @@ enum emulation_result kvm_mips_emul_tlbwr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
unsigned long pc = vcpu->arch.pc;
int index;

get_random_bytes(&index, sizeof(index));
index &= (KVM_MIPS_GUEST_TLB_SIZE - 1);

index = prandom_u32_max(KVM_MIPS_GUEST_TLB_SIZE);
tlb = &vcpu->arch.guest_tlb[index];

kvm_mips_invalidate_guest_tlb(vcpu, tlb);
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