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authorMarco Felsch <m.felsch@pengutronix.de>2020-08-31 17:00:42 +0300
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2020-09-11 07:39:14 +0300
commit9769635423af703b131d7635e0de83767fe0006d (patch)
treebc2aae99bbb37c5bcb2970067f4f44b7f8dce44f /drivers/char/hw_random
parent45cb6653b0c355fc1445a8069ba78a4ce8720511 (diff)
downloadlinux-9769635423af703b131d7635e0de83767fe0006d.tar.xz
hwrng: imx-rngc - add quality to use it as kernel entropy pool
The RNGB can generate 2^20 words (1 word == 4 byte) of 'random' data after the seed pool was initialized. The pool needs to be reseeded if more words are required. The reseeding is done automatically since commit 3acd9ea9331c ("hwrng: imx-rngc - use automatic seeding"). We can't retrieve the TRNG values directly so we need a other way to get the quality level. We know that the PRNG uses 20.000 entropy samples from the TRNG to generate 2^20 words (1MiB) and the quality level is defined as (in bits of entropy per 1024 bits of input). So the quality level can be calculated by: 20.000 * 1024 ------------- = ~ 19.5 2^20 Signed-off-by: Marco Felsch <m.felsch@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/hw_random')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/hw_random/imx-rngc.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/imx-rngc.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/imx-rngc.c
index 9c47e431ce90..61c844baf26e 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/imx-rngc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/imx-rngc.c
@@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ static int imx_rngc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
rngc->rng.init = imx_rngc_init;
rngc->rng.read = imx_rngc_read;
rngc->rng.cleanup = imx_rngc_cleanup;
+ rngc->rng.quality = 19;
rngc->dev = &pdev->dev;
platform_set_drvdata(pdev, rngc);