From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> stable inclusion from stable-v5.10.119 commit 714def449776d69dcf29b408b41ce6beff8e2074 category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I5L6BB Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=... -------------------------------- commit 6d01238623faa9425f820353d2066baf6c9dc872 upstream. 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 random_get_entropy_fallback() would be preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though random_get_entropy_fallback() 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: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com> Acked-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> --- arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h index 81de51e6aa32..a06697846e69 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static inline u32 get_cycles_hi(void) static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void) { if (unlikely(clint_time_val == NULL)) - return 0; + return random_get_entropy_fallback(); return get_cycles(); } #define random_get_entropy() random_get_entropy() -- 2.20.1