This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sparc: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero to the 4.14-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: sparc-use-fallback-for-random_get_entropy-instead-of-zero.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Jun 16 07:08:33 PM CEST 2022 From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 18:03:13 +0200 Subject: sparc: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> commit ac9756c79797bb98972736b13cfb239fd2cffb79 upstream. In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or similar, falling back to returning 0 is really not the best we can do. Instead, at least calling random_get_entropy_fallback() would be preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision or guaranteed to be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all the time is better than returning zero all the time. This is accomplished by just including the asm-generic code like on other architectures, which means we can get rid of the empty stub function here. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/sparc/include/asm/timex_32.h | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/timex_32.h +++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/timex_32.h @@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ #define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1193180 /* Underlying HZ */ -/* XXX Maybe do something better at some point... -DaveM */ -typedef unsigned long cycles_t; -#define get_cycles() (0) +#include <asm-generic/timex.h> #endif Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Jason@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/random-do-not-take-pool-spinlock-at-boot.patch queue-4.14/random-remove-kernel.random.read_wakeup_threshold.patch queue-4.14/random-simplify-arithmetic-function-flow-in-account.patch queue-4.14/random-order-timer-entropy-functions-below-interrupt-functions.patch queue-4.14/random-introduce-drain_entropy-helper-to-declutter-crng_reseed.patch queue-4.14/random-fix-locking-in-crng_fast_load.patch 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