[PATCH RFC v1 6/6] efi: refresh non-volatile random seed when RNG is initialized

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Register a notifier so that when the RNG is initialized, the EFI
variable containing the random seed can be refreshed.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
index a46df5d1d094..db247a52d3c2 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -337,6 +337,19 @@ static void __init efi_debugfs_init(void)
 static inline void efi_debugfs_init(void) {}
 #endif
 
+static int refresh_nv_rng_seed(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action, void *data)
+{
+	u8 seed[EFI_RANDOM_SEED_SIZE];
+
+	get_random_bytes(seed, sizeof(seed));
+	efi.set_variable(LINUX_EFI_RANDOM_NV_SEED_VAR, &LINUX_EFI_RANDOM_SEED_TABLE_GUID,
+			 EFI_VARIABLE_NON_VOLATILE | EFI_VARIABLE_BOOTSERVICE_ACCESS |
+			 EFI_VARIABLE_RUNTIME_ACCESS, sizeof(seed), seed);
+	memzero_explicit(seed, sizeof(seed));
+	return 0;
+}
+static struct notifier_block refresh_nv_rng_seed_nb = { .notifier_call = refresh_nv_rng_seed };
+
 /*
  * We register the efi subsystem with the firmware subsystem and the
  * efivars subsystem with the efi subsystem, if the system was booted with
@@ -413,6 +426,7 @@ static int __init efisubsys_init(void)
 		platform_device_register_simple("efi_secret", 0, NULL, 0);
 #endif
 
+	notify_on_rng_initialized(&refresh_nv_rng_seed_nb);
 	return 0;
 
 err_remove_group:
-- 
2.38.1




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