On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 10:37:47AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 10:30 AM Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Should we do that somewhere in the early boot code by adding a WARN_ON()
> > or so and see who screams?
>
> It might be a good idea, just to see if it ever happens (again).
>
> It doesn't even have to be early boot. It's probably more important to
> let the user _know_, than it is to then disable the rdrand
> instruction.
>
> Particularly since we might as well just do it in general, and in the
> general case we don't even know how to hide it in cpuid. So maybe just
> something like "read the rdrand value a few times, make sure it
> actually changes" at CPU bring-up (both boot and resume)
>
> It sounds like a stupid test, but considering that AMD has had this
> particular bug now several times over at least three different
> generations, maybe it's not a stupid test after all.
My lazy, sticky Sunday brain could come up only with this:
---
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/rdrand.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/rdrand.c
index 5c900f9527ff..0130a4f4f836 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/rdrand.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/rdrand.c
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ __setup("nordrand", x86_rdrand_setup);
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM
void x86_init_rdrand(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{
- unsigned long tmp;
+ unsigned int changed = 0;
+ unsigned long tmp, prev;
int i;
if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_RDRAND))
@@ -42,5 +43,24 @@ void x86_init_rdrand(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
return;
}
}
+
+ /*
+ * Stupid sanity-check whether RDRAND does *actually* generate
+ * some at least random-looking data.
+ */
+ prev = tmp;
+ for (i = 0; i < SANITY_CHECK_LOOPS; i++) {
+ if (rdrand_long(&tmp)) {
+ if (prev != tmp)
+ changed++;
+
+ prev = tmp;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (!changed)
+ WARN(1,
+"RDRAND gives funky smelling output, might consider not using it by booting
with \"nordrand\"");
+
}
#endif
---
> Who knows what the Chinese CPU's that use the AMD core do? Hygon?
> Whatever. Did they get the firmware fixes?
Pu Wen?
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