This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
virtio: rng: delay hwrng_register() till driver is ready
to the 3.16-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
virtio-rng-delay-hwrng_register-till-driver-is-ready.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 5c06273401f2eb7b290cadbae18ee00f8f65e893 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amit Shah <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 07:34:01 +0930
Subject: virtio: rng: delay hwrng_register() till driver is ready
From: Amit Shah <[email protected]>
commit 5c06273401f2eb7b290cadbae18ee00f8f65e893 upstream.
Instead of calling hwrng_register() in the probe routing, call it in the
scan routine. This ensures that when hwrng_register() is successful,
and it requests a few random bytes to seed the kernel's pool at init,
we're ready to service that request.
This will also enable us to remove the workaround added previously to
check whether probe was completed, and only then ask for data from the
host. The revert follows in the next commit.
There's a slight behaviour change here on unsuccessful hwrng_register().
Previously, when hwrng_register() failed, the probe() routine would
fail, and the vqs would be torn down, and driver would be marked not
initialized. Now, the vqs will remain initialized, driver would be
marked initialized as well, but won't be available in the list of RNGs
available to hwrng core. To fix the failures, the procedure remains the
same, i.e. unload and re-load the module, and hope things succeed the
next time around.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c | 25 +++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ struct virtrng_info {
bool busy;
char name[25];
int index;
+ bool hwrng_register_done;
};
static bool probe_done;
@@ -137,15 +138,6 @@ static int probe_common(struct virtio_de
return err;
}
- err = hwrng_register(&vi->hwrng);
- if (err) {
- vdev->config->del_vqs(vdev);
- vi->vq = NULL;
- kfree(vi);
- ida_simple_remove(&rng_index_ida, index);
- return err;
- }
-
probe_done = true;
return 0;
}
@@ -153,9 +145,11 @@ static int probe_common(struct virtio_de
static void remove_common(struct virtio_device *vdev)
{
struct virtrng_info *vi = vdev->priv;
+
vdev->config->reset(vdev);
vi->busy = false;
- hwrng_unregister(&vi->hwrng);
+ if (vi->hwrng_register_done)
+ hwrng_unregister(&vi->hwrng);
vdev->config->del_vqs(vdev);
ida_simple_remove(&rng_index_ida, vi->index);
kfree(vi);
@@ -171,6 +165,16 @@ static void virtrng_remove(struct virtio
remove_common(vdev);
}
+static void virtrng_scan(struct virtio_device *vdev)
+{
+ struct virtrng_info *vi = vdev->priv;
+ int err;
+
+ err = hwrng_register(&vi->hwrng);
+ if (!err)
+ vi->hwrng_register_done = true;
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
static int virtrng_freeze(struct virtio_device *vdev)
{
@@ -195,6 +199,7 @@ static struct virtio_driver virtio_rng_d
.id_table = id_table,
.probe = virtrng_probe,
.remove = virtrng_remove,
+ .scan = virtrng_scan,
#ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
.freeze = virtrng_freeze,
.restore = virtrng_restore,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.16/revert-hwrng-virtio-ensure-reads-happen-after-successful-probe.patch
queue-3.16/virtio-rng-delay-hwrng_register-till-driver-is-ready.patch
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