If a hwrng source does not provide an entropy estimate, it currently
does not contribute at all to the CRNG. In order to help fix this, in
case add_hwgenerator_randomness() is called with the entropy parameter
set to zero, go to sleep until one reseed interval has passed.
While the hwrng thread currently only runs under conditions where this
is non-zero, this change is not harmful and prepares for future updates
to the hwrng core.
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
/*
* Throttle writing to once every reseed interval, unless we're not yet
- * initialized.
+ * initialized or no entropy is credited.
*/
- if (!kthread_should_stop() && crng_ready())
+ if (!kthread_should_stop() && (crng_ready() || !entropy))
schedule_timeout_interruptible(crng_reseed_interval());
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_hwgenerator_randomness);