Commit 7879fc4b authored by Borislav Petkov's avatar Borislav Petkov

x86/rdrand: Sanity-check RDRAND output

It turned out recently that on certain AMD F15h and F16h machines, due
to the BIOS dropping the ball after resume, yet again, RDRAND would not
function anymore:

  c49a0a80 ("x86/CPU/AMD: Clear RDRAND CPUID bit on AMD family 15h/16h")

Add a silly test to the CPU bringup path, to sanity-check the random
data RDRAND returns and scream as loudly as possible if that returned
random data doesn't change.
Suggested-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Pu Wen <puwen@hygon.cn>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjWPDauemCmLTKbdMYFB0UveMszZpcrwoUkJRRWKrqaTw@mail.gmail.com
parent 54ecb8f7
......@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ __setup("nordrand", x86_rdrand_setup);
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM
void x86_init_rdrand(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{
unsigned long tmp;
unsigned int changed = 0;
unsigned long tmp, prev;
int i;
if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_RDRAND))
......@@ -42,5 +43,24 @@ void x86_init_rdrand(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
return;
}
}
/*
* Stupid sanity-check whether RDRAND does *actually* generate
* some at least random-looking data.
*/
prev = tmp;
for (i = 0; i < SANITY_CHECK_LOOPS; i++) {
if (rdrand_long(&tmp)) {
if (prev != tmp)
changed++;
prev = tmp;
}
}
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!changed))
pr_emerg(
"RDRAND gives funky smelling output, might consider not using it by booting with \"nordrand\"");
}
#endif
Markdown is supported
0%
or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment