[PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc/kvm: don't crash on missing rng, and use darn

Fabiano Rosas farosas at linux.ibm.com
Sat Jun 25 00:44:08 AEST 2022


"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason at zx2c4.com> writes:

> On POWER8 systems that don't have ibm,power-rng available, a guest that
> ignores the KVM_CAP_PPC_HWRNG flag and calls H_RANDOM anyway will
> dereference a NULL pointer. And on machines with darn instead of
> ibm,power-rng, H_RANDOM won't work at all.
>
> This patch kills two birds with one stone, by routing H_RANDOM calls to
> ppc_md.get_random_seed, and doing the real mode check inside of it.
>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v4.1+
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Fixes: e928e9cb3601 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add fast real-mode H_RANDOM implementation.")
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com>

Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas at linux.ibm.com>



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