Re: Issues with HW RNG / SSS on Exynos 5422

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Am 15.08.2015 um 13:19 schrieb Heiner Kallweit:
> I'm having issues making the hardware RNG work on a Samsung Exynos 5422 (Odroid XU4) with kernel 4.2rc6.
> No random number generation is started if I write the appropriate value (0x18) to the hash control register.
> 
> What I did so far:
> Splitted the sss DT node in exynos5420.dtsi into one for the s5p-sss driver and one for the exynos-rng driver.
> (s5p-sss doesn't seem to need the hash registers from offset 0x400)
> 
> sss: sss@10830000 {
> 	icompatible = "samsung,exynos4210-secss";
> 	reg = <0x10830000 0x400>;
> 	interrupts = <0 112 0>;
> 	clocks = <&clock CLK_SSS>;
> 	clock-names = "secss";
> };
> 
> rng: rng@10830400 {
> 	compatible = "samsung,exynosrng-secss";
> 	reg = <0x10830400 0x300>;
> 	clocks = <&clock CLK_SSS>;
> 	clock-names = "secss";
> };
> 
> The DT binding is just for testing and after adding some DT glue logic (of_device_id table) to the exynos-rng driver
> it binds to the rng platform device.
> The clock also seems to be ok with a rate of 266 MHz.
> As is the driver hangs in a loop because the PRNG_DONE in the status register bit never gets set.
> 
> I traced it back to the hash control register not accepting value 0x8 (or 0x18 incl. the start bit) for the PRNG.
> Writing a value and reading it back works for values from 0 to 5 only.
> As I have no SSS datasheet my only other reference is drivers/crypto/ace_sha.h in the uboot source code
> which also uses the HW RNG.
> 
> Any hint would be appreciated.
> 
After some more testing it seems like SSS in general has problems on Exynos 5422.
Also the AES implementation in s5p-sss doesn't work. dmesg output:

[    7.116739] alg: skcipher: encryption failed on chunk test 1 for ecb-aes-s5p: ret=22
[    7.123673] s5p-sss driver registered

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