Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | "Jason A. Donenfeld" <> | Subject | [PATCH v2 03/11] m68k: use ktime_read_raw_clock() for random_get_entropy() instead of zero | Date | Sun, 10 Apr 2022 23:49:43 +0200 |
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In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or similar, falling back to returning 0 is really not the best we can do. Instead, at least calling ktime_read_raw_clock() would be preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though ktime_read_raw_clock() is super high precision or guaranteed to be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all the time is better than returning zero all the time.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> --- arch/m68k/include/asm/timex.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/m68k/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/m68k/include/asm/timex.h index 6a21d9358280..5351b10e1b18 100644 --- a/arch/m68k/include/asm/timex.h +++ b/arch/m68k/include/asm/timex.h @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void) { if (mach_random_get_entropy) return mach_random_get_entropy(); - return 0; + return ktime_read_raw_clock(); } #define random_get_entropy random_get_entropy -- 2.35.1
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