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hw_random: make buffer usable in scatterlist.
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virtio_rng feeds the randomness buffer handed by the core directly
into the scatterlist, since commit bb347d9.

However, if CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=m, the static buffer isn't a linear address
(at least on most archs).  We could fix this in virtio_rng, but it's actually
far easier to just do it in the core as virtio_rng would have to allocate
a buffer every time (it doesn't know how much the core will want to read).

Reported-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Tested-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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Rusty Russell committed Mar 4, 2013
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19 changes: 16 additions & 3 deletions drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
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Expand Up @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>


Expand All @@ -52,8 +53,12 @@ static struct hwrng *current_rng;
static LIST_HEAD(rng_list);
static DEFINE_MUTEX(rng_mutex);
static int data_avail;
static u8 rng_buffer[SMP_CACHE_BYTES < 32 ? 32 : SMP_CACHE_BYTES]
__cacheline_aligned;
static u8 *rng_buffer;

static size_t rng_buffer_size(void)
{
return SMP_CACHE_BYTES < 32 ? 32 : SMP_CACHE_BYTES;
}

static inline int hwrng_init(struct hwrng *rng)
{
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -116,7 +121,7 @@ static ssize_t rng_dev_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,

if (!data_avail) {
bytes_read = rng_get_data(current_rng, rng_buffer,
sizeof(rng_buffer),
rng_buffer_size(),
!(filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK));
if (bytes_read < 0) {
err = bytes_read;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -307,6 +312,14 @@ int hwrng_register(struct hwrng *rng)

mutex_lock(&rng_mutex);

/* kmalloc makes this safe for virt_to_page() in virtio_rng.c */
err = -ENOMEM;
if (!rng_buffer) {
rng_buffer = kmalloc(rng_buffer_size(), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!rng_buffer)
goto out_unlock;
}

/* Must not register two RNGs with the same name. */
err = -EEXIST;
list_for_each_entry(tmp, &rng_list, list) {
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