[PATCH v4 5/5] powerpc/vdso: Wire up getrandom() vDSO implementation on PPC64

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason at zx2c4.com
Tue Sep 3 00:19:42 AEST 2024


On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 04:16:48PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Can do that, but there will still be a problem with chacha selftests if 
> I don't opt-out the entire function content when it is ppc64. It will 
> build properly but if someone runs it on a ppc64 it will likely crash 
> because only the low 32 bits of registers will be saved.

What if you don't wire up the selftests _at all_ until the ppc64 commit?
Then there'll be no risk.

(And I think I would prefer to see the 32-bit code all in the 32-bit
commit; that'd make it more straight forward to review too.)


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