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crypto: atmel-sha204a - Set hwrng quality to lowest possible

Message ID 20250422095718.17360-1-kabel@kernel.org
State Accepted
Commit 8006aff15516a170640239c5a8e6696c0ba18d8e
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Series crypto: atmel-sha204a - Set hwrng quality to lowest possible | expand

Commit Message

Marek Behún April 22, 2025, 9:57 a.m. UTC 
According to the review by Bill Cox [1], the Atmel SHA204A random number
generator produces random numbers with very low entropy.

Set the lowest possible entropy for this chip just to be safe.

[1] https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2014-December/023858.html

Fixes: da001fb651b00e1d ("crypto: atmel-i2c - add support for SHA204A random number generator")
Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <kabel@kernel.org>
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 drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c b/drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c
index 75bebec2c757..0fcf4a39de27 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c
@@ -163,6 +163,12 @@  static int atmel_sha204a_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
 	i2c_priv->hwrng.name = dev_name(&client->dev);
 	i2c_priv->hwrng.read = atmel_sha204a_rng_read;
 
+	/*
+	 * According to review by Bill Cox [1], this HWRNG has very low entropy.
+	 * [1] https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2014-December/023858.html
+	 */
+	i2c_priv->hwrng.quality = 1;
+
 	ret = devm_hwrng_register(&client->dev, &i2c_priv->hwrng);
 	if (ret)
 		dev_warn(&client->dev, "failed to register RNG (%d)\n", ret);