[rng] Allow entropy source to be selected at runtime

As noted in commit 3c83843 ("[rng] Check for several functioning RTC
interrupts"), experimentation shows that Hyper-V cannot be trusted to
reliably generate RTC interrupts.  (As noted in commit f3ba0fb
("[hyperv] Provide timer based on the 10MHz time reference count
MSR"), Hyper-V appears to suffer from a general problem in reliably
generating any legacy interrupts.)  An alternative entropy source is
therefore required for an image that may be used in a Hyper-V Gen1
virtual machine.

The x86 RDRAND instruction provides a suitable alternative entropy
source, but may not be supported by all CPUs.  We must therefore allow
for multiple entropy sources to be compiled in, with the single active
entropy source selected only at runtime.

Restructure the internal entropy API to allow a working entropy source
to be detected and chosen at runtime.

Enable the RDRAND entropy source for all x86 builds, since it is
likely to be substantially faster than any other source.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/interface/linux/linux_entropy.c b/src/interface/linux/linux_entropy.c
index 257e993a0..f24969794 100644
--- a/src/interface/linux/linux_entropy.c
+++ b/src/interface/linux/linux_entropy.c
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDL );
 #include <ipxe/linux_api.h>
 #include <ipxe/entropy.h>
 
+struct entropy_source linux_entropy __entropy_source ( ENTROPY_NORMAL );
+
 /** Entropy source filename */
 static const char entropy_filename[] = "/dev/random";
 
@@ -55,6 +57,13 @@ static int linux_entropy_enable ( void ) {
 		return entropy_fd;
 	}
 
+	/* linux_get_noise() reads a single byte from /dev/random,
+	 * which is supposed to block until a sufficient amount of
+	 * entropy is available.  We therefore assume that each sample
+	 * contains exactly 8 bits of entropy.
+	 */
+	entropy_init ( &linux_entropy, MIN_ENTROPY ( 8.0 ) );
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -95,7 +104,10 @@ static int linux_get_noise ( noise_sample_t *noise ) {
 	return 0;
 }
 
-PROVIDE_ENTROPY_INLINE ( linux, min_entropy_per_sample );
-PROVIDE_ENTROPY ( linux, entropy_enable, linux_entropy_enable );
-PROVIDE_ENTROPY ( linux, entropy_disable, linux_entropy_disable );
-PROVIDE_ENTROPY ( linux, get_noise, linux_get_noise );
+/** Linux entropy source */
+struct entropy_source linux_entropy __entropy_source ( ENTROPY_NORMAL ) = {
+	.name = "linux",
+	.enable = linux_entropy_enable,
+	.disable = linux_entropy_disable,
+	.get_noise = linux_get_noise,
+};