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SubjectRe: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] Add devicetree scanning for randomness
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On Monday 17 February 2014 15:54:19 Grant Likely wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:20:00 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:45:54PM -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:
> >
> > > The bootloader would then load this file into ram, and pass the
> > > address/size to the kernel either via dt, or commandline. kaslr (run in
> > > the decompressor) would consume some of this randomness, and then
> > > random.c would consume the rest in a non-crediting initialization.
> >
> > Sure is a neat idea, but I think in general it would probably be smart
> > to include the entire FDT blob in the early random pool, that way you
> > get MACs and other machine unique data too.
>
> I applied a patch that did exactly that (109b623629), and then reverted
> it (b920ecc82) shortly thereafter because add_device_randomness() is
> a rather slow function and FDTs can get large. I'd like to see someone
> do a reasonable analysis on the cost of using an FDT for randomness
> before I reapply a patch doing something similar. An awful lot of the
> FDT data is not very random, but there are certainly portions of it that
> are appropriate for the random pool.

Could we use a faster hash function that scans the entire device tree and
then just feed the output of that into add_device_randomness? We probably
can't expect that there is a lot of entropy in the DT blob, so the
result wouldn't be all that different in terms of quality of the random
seed.

Arnd


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