From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> stable inclusion from stable-v5.10.119 commit fdca775081527364621857957655207d83035376 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 ff8a8f59c99f6a7c656387addc4d9f2247d75077 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> Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> 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/arm/include/asm/timex.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h index 7c3b3671d6c2..6d1337c169cd 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h @@ -11,5 +11,6 @@ typedef unsigned long cycles_t; #define get_cycles() ({ cycles_t c; read_current_timer(&c) ? 0 : c; }) +#define random_get_entropy() (((unsigned long)get_cycles()) ?: random_get_entropy_fallback()) #endif -- 2.20.1