Linux Virtualization - Jul 2014 - [PATCH 0/3] virtio-rng: contribute to early randomness requests

Hi,

This series enables virtio-rng to service the early randomness
requests made by the hwrng core (patch 2), with Herbert's idea of
using the scan routine.

Patch 3 reverts the previous restriction, which no longer applies, to
not send read requests to the host before successful probe.

Patch 1 is a minor cleanup.

Please review and apply,

Amit Shah (3):
  virtio: rng: remove unused struct element
  virtio: rng: delay hwrng_register() till driver is ready
  Revert "hwrng: virtio - ensure reads happen after successful probe"

 drivers/char/hw_random/core.c       |  6 ------
 drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c | 35 +++++++++++++++--------------------
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

-- 
1.9.3

vdev is unused in struct virtrng_info, remove it.

CC: Amos Kong <akong at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
index e9b15bc..d8ffebd 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
 static DEFINE_IDA(rng_index_ida);
 
 struct virtrng_info {
-	struct virtio_device *vdev;
 	struct hwrng hwrng;
 	struct virtqueue *vq;
 	unsigned int data_avail;
-- 
1.9.3

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.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c | 25 +++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
index d8ffebd..32e6373 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ struct virtrng_info {
 };
 
 static bool probe_done;
+static bool hwrng_register_done;
 
 static void random_recv_done(struct virtqueue *vq)
 {
@@ -136,15 +137,6 @@ static int probe_common(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 		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;
 }
@@ -152,9 +144,11 @@ static int probe_common(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 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 (hwrng_register_done)
+		hwrng_unregister(&vi->hwrng);
 	vdev->config->del_vqs(vdev);
 	ida_simple_remove(&rng_index_ida, vi->index);
 	kfree(vi);
@@ -170,6 +164,16 @@ static void virtrng_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 	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)
+		hwrng_register_done = true;
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
 static int virtrng_freeze(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 {
@@ -194,6 +198,7 @@ static struct virtio_driver virtio_rng_driver = {
 	.id_table =	id_table,
 	.probe =	virtrng_probe,
 	.remove =	virtrng_remove,
+	.scan =		virtrng_scan,
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
 	.freeze =	virtrng_freeze,
 	.restore =	virtrng_restore,
-- 
1.9.3

This reverts commit e052dbf554610e2104c5a7518c4d8374bed701bb.

Now that we use the virtio ->scan() function to register with the hwrng
core, we will not get read requests till probe is successfully finished.

So revert the workaround we had in place to refuse read requests while
we were not yet setup completely.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah at redhat.com>

Conflicts:
	drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
(Conflict due to change in context around the revert)
---
 drivers/char/hw_random/core.c       | 6 ------
 drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c | 9 ---------
 2 files changed, 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index c4419ea..2a451b1 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -68,12 +68,6 @@ static void add_early_randomness(struct hwrng *rng)
 	unsigned char bytes[16];
 	int bytes_read;
 
-	/*
-	 * Currently only virtio-rng cannot return data during device
-	 * probe, and that's handled in virtio-rng.c itself.  If there
-	 * are more such devices, this call to rng_get_data can be
-	 * made conditional here instead of doing it per-device.
-	 */
 	bytes_read = rng_get_data(rng, bytes, sizeof(bytes), 1);
 	if (bytes_read > 0)
 		add_device_randomness(bytes, bytes_read);
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
index 32e6373..2080630 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ struct virtrng_info {
 	int index;
 };
 
-static bool probe_done;
 static bool hwrng_register_done;
 
 static void random_recv_done(struct virtqueue *vq)
@@ -69,13 +68,6 @@ static int virtio_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t
size, bool wait)
 	int ret;
 	struct virtrng_info *vi = (struct virtrng_info *)rng->priv;
 
-	/*
-	 * Don't ask host for data till we're setup.  This call can
-	 * happen during hwrng_register(), after commit d9e7972619.
-	 */
-	if (unlikely(!probe_done))
-		return 0;
-
 	if (!vi->busy) {
 		vi->busy = true;
 		init_completion(&vi->have_data);
@@ -137,7 +129,6 @@ static int probe_common(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 		return err;
 	}
 
-	probe_done = true;
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
1.9.3

On (Mon) 21 Jul 2014 [15:01:00], Amit Shah wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah at redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c | 25 +++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
> index d8ffebd..32e6373 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
> @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ struct virtrng_info {
>  };
>  
>  static bool probe_done;
> +static bool hwrng_register_done;
Ah; this needs to be per-device after the recent multi-device work,
rather than a global.

New patches coming up.


		Amit