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1 /*
2  * RNG driver for VIA RNGs
3  *
4  * Copyright 2005 (c) MontaVista Software, Inc.
5  *
6  * with the majority of the code coming from:
7  *
8  * Hardware driver for the Intel/AMD/VIA Random Number Generators (RNG)
9  * (c) Copyright 2003 Red Hat Inc <jgarzik@redhat.com>
10  *
11  * derived from
12  *
13  * Hardware driver for the AMD 768 Random Number Generator (RNG)
14  * (c) Copyright 2001 Red Hat Inc <alan@redhat.com>
15  *
16  * derived from
17  *
18  * Hardware driver for Intel i810 Random Number Generator (RNG)
19  * Copyright 2000,2001 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
20  * Copyright 2000,2001 Philipp Rumpf <prumpf@mandrakesoft.com>
21  *
22  * This file is licensed under  the terms of the GNU General Public
23  * License version 2. This program is licensed "as is" without any
24  * warranty of any kind, whether express or implied.
25  */
26 
27 #include <linux/module.h>
28 #include <linux/kernel.h>
29 #include <linux/pci.h>
30 #include <linux/hw_random.h>
31 #include <asm/io.h>
32 #include <asm/msr.h>
33 #include <asm/cpufeature.h>
34 
35 
36 #define PFX	KBUILD_MODNAME ": "
37 
38 
39 enum {
40 	VIA_STRFILT_CNT_SHIFT	= 16,
41 	VIA_STRFILT_FAIL	= (1 << 15),
42 	VIA_STRFILT_ENABLE	= (1 << 14),
43 	VIA_RAWBITS_ENABLE	= (1 << 13),
44 	VIA_RNG_ENABLE		= (1 << 6),
45 	VIA_XSTORE_CNT_MASK	= 0x0F,
46 
47 	VIA_RNG_CHUNK_8		= 0x00,	/* 64 rand bits, 64 stored bits */
48 	VIA_RNG_CHUNK_4		= 0x01,	/* 32 rand bits, 32 stored bits */
49 	VIA_RNG_CHUNK_4_MASK	= 0xFFFFFFFF,
50 	VIA_RNG_CHUNK_2		= 0x02,	/* 16 rand bits, 32 stored bits */
51 	VIA_RNG_CHUNK_2_MASK	= 0xFFFF,
52 	VIA_RNG_CHUNK_1		= 0x03,	/* 8 rand bits, 32 stored bits */
53 	VIA_RNG_CHUNK_1_MASK	= 0xFF,
54 };
55 
56 /*
57  * Investigate using the 'rep' prefix to obtain 32 bits of random data
58  * in one insn.  The upside is potentially better performance.  The
59  * downside is that the instruction becomes no longer atomic.  Due to
60  * this, just like familiar issues with /dev/random itself, the worst
61  * case of a 'rep xstore' could potentially pause a cpu for an
62  * unreasonably long time.  In practice, this condition would likely
63  * only occur when the hardware is failing.  (or so we hope :))
64  *
65  * Another possible performance boost may come from simply buffering
66  * until we have 4 bytes, thus returning a u32 at a time,
67  * instead of the current u8-at-a-time.
68  */
69 
70 static inline u32 xstore(u32 *addr, u32 edx_in)
71 {
72 	u32 eax_out;
73 
74 	asm(".byte 0x0F,0xA7,0xC0 /* xstore %%edi (addr=%0) */"
75 		:"=m"(*addr), "=a"(eax_out)
76 		:"D"(addr), "d"(edx_in));
77 
78 	return eax_out;
79 }
80 
81 static int via_rng_data_present(struct hwrng *rng)
82 {
83 	u32 bytes_out;
84 	u32 *via_rng_datum = (u32 *)(&rng->priv);
85 
86 	/* We choose the recommended 1-byte-per-instruction RNG rate,
87 	 * for greater randomness at the expense of speed.  Larger
88 	 * values 2, 4, or 8 bytes-per-instruction yield greater
89 	 * speed at lesser randomness.
90 	 *
91 	 * If you change this to another VIA_CHUNK_n, you must also
92 	 * change the ->n_bytes values in rng_vendor_ops[] tables.
93 	 * VIA_CHUNK_8 requires further code changes.
94 	 *
95 	 * A copy of MSR_VIA_RNG is placed in eax_out when xstore
96 	 * completes.
97 	 */
98 
99 	*via_rng_datum = 0; /* paranoia, not really necessary */
100 	bytes_out = xstore(via_rng_datum, VIA_RNG_CHUNK_1);
101 	bytes_out &= VIA_XSTORE_CNT_MASK;
102 	if (bytes_out == 0)
103 		return 0;
104 	return 1;
105 }
106 
107 static int via_rng_data_read(struct hwrng *rng, u32 *data)
108 {
109 	u32 via_rng_datum = (u32)rng->priv;
110 
111 	*data = via_rng_datum;
112 
113 	return 1;
114 }
115 
116 static int via_rng_init(struct hwrng *rng)
117 {
118 	u32 lo, hi, old_lo;
119 
120 	/* Control the RNG via MSR.  Tread lightly and pay very close
121 	 * close attention to values written, as the reserved fields
122 	 * are documented to be "undefined and unpredictable"; but it
123 	 * does not say to write them as zero, so I make a guess that
124 	 * we restore the values we find in the register.
125 	 */
126 	rdmsr(MSR_VIA_RNG, lo, hi);
127 
128 	old_lo = lo;
129 	lo &= ~(0x7f << VIA_STRFILT_CNT_SHIFT);
130 	lo &= ~VIA_XSTORE_CNT_MASK;
131 	lo &= ~(VIA_STRFILT_ENABLE | VIA_STRFILT_FAIL | VIA_RAWBITS_ENABLE);
132 	lo |= VIA_RNG_ENABLE;
133 
134 	if (lo != old_lo)
135 		wrmsr(MSR_VIA_RNG, lo, hi);
136 
137 	/* perhaps-unnecessary sanity check; remove after testing if
138 	   unneeded */
139 	rdmsr(MSR_VIA_RNG, lo, hi);
140 	if ((lo & VIA_RNG_ENABLE) == 0) {
141 		printk(KERN_ERR PFX "cannot enable VIA C3 RNG, aborting\n");
142 		return -ENODEV;
143 	}
144 
145 	return 0;
146 }
147 
148 
149 static struct hwrng via_rng = {
150 	.name		= "via",
151 	.init		= via_rng_init,
152 	.data_present	= via_rng_data_present,
153 	.data_read	= via_rng_data_read,
154 };
155 
156 
157 static int __init mod_init(void)
158 {
159 	int err;
160 
161 	if (!cpu_has_xstore)
162 		return -ENODEV;
163 	printk(KERN_INFO "VIA RNG detected\n");
164 	err = hwrng_register(&via_rng);
165 	if (err) {
166 		printk(KERN_ERR PFX "RNG registering failed (%d)\n",
167 		       err);
168 		goto out;
169 	}
170 out:
171 	return err;
172 }
173 
174 static void __exit mod_exit(void)
175 {
176 	hwrng_unregister(&via_rng);
177 }
178 
179 module_init(mod_init);
180 module_exit(mod_exit);
181 
182 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("H/W RNG driver for VIA chipsets");
183 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
184