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x86, rdrand: When nordrand is specified, disable RDSEED as well 

One can logically expect that when the user has specified "nordrand",
the user doesn't want any use of the CPU random number generator,
neither RDRAND nor RDSEED, so disable both.

Reported-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/21542339.0lFnPSyGRS@myon.chronox.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
H. Peter Anvin 2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07:00
parent d6d211db37
commit 7a5091d584
2 changed files with 5 additions and 4 deletions
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Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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@ -2218,10 +2218,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
with UP alternatives
nordrand [X86] Disable the direct use of the RDRAND
instruction even if it is supported by the
processor. RDRAND is still available to user
space applications.
nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
available to user space applications.
noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
space.

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arch/x86/kernel/cpu/rdrand.c
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@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
static int __init x86_rdrand_setup(char *s)
{
setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RDRAND);
setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RDSEED);
return 1;
}
__setup("nordrand", x86_rdrand_setup);