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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] rng-builtin: add an RNG backend that uses qe


From: Laurent Vivier
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] rng-builtin: add an RNG backend that uses qemu_guest_getrandom()
Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 14:37:41 +0200
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On 10/05/2019 14:27, Markus Armbruster wrote:
Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> writes:

Add a new RNG backend using QEMU builtin getrandom function.

It can be created and used with something like:

     ... -object rng-builtin,id=rng0 -device virtio-rng,rng=rng0 ...

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <address@hidden>
---

Notes:
     This patch applies on top of
     "[PATCH v5 00/24] Add qemu_getrandom and ARMv8.5-RNG etc"
     Based-on: address@hidden
v2: Update qemu-options.hx
         describe the new backend and specify virtio-rng uses the
         rng-random by default (do we want to change this?)

  backends/Makefile.objs |  2 +-
  backends/rng-builtin.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  qemu-options.hx        | 10 +++++++-
  3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 backends/rng-builtin.c

diff --git a/backends/Makefile.objs b/backends/Makefile.objs
index ff619d31b461..8da4a508d97b 100644
--- a/backends/Makefile.objs
+++ b/backends/Makefile.objs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-common-obj-y += rng.o rng-egd.o
+common-obj-y += rng.o rng-egd.o rng-builtin.o
  common-obj-$(CONFIG_POSIX) += rng-random.o
common-obj-$(CONFIG_TPM) += tpm.o
diff --git a/backends/rng-builtin.c b/backends/rng-builtin.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b1264b745407
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backends/rng-builtin.c
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+/*
+ * QEMU Builtin Random Number Generator Backend
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ */
+
+#include "qemu/osdep.h"
+#include "sysemu/rng.h"
+#include "qapi/error.h"
+#include "qapi/qmp/qerror.h"
+#include "qemu/main-loop.h"
+#include "qemu/guest-random.h"
+
+#define TYPE_RNG_BUILTIN "rng-builtin"
+#define RNG_BUILTIN(obj) OBJECT_CHECK(RngBuiltin, (obj), TYPE_RNG_BUILTIN)
+
+typedef struct RngBuiltin {
+    RngBackend parent;
+} RngBuiltin;
+
+static void rng_builtin_request_entropy(RngBackend *b, RngRequest *req)
+{
+    RngBuiltin *s = RNG_BUILTIN(b);
+
+    while (!QSIMPLEQ_EMPTY(&s->parent.requests)) {
+        RngRequest *req = QSIMPLEQ_FIRST(&s->parent.requests);
+
+        qemu_guest_getrandom_nofail(req->data, req->size);
+
+        req->receive_entropy(req->opaque, req->data, req->size);
+
+        rng_backend_finalize_request(&s->parent, req);
+    }
+}
+
+static void rng_builtin_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, void *data)
+{
+    RngBackendClass *rbc = RNG_BACKEND_CLASS(klass);
+
+    rbc->request_entropy = rng_builtin_request_entropy;
+}
+
+static const TypeInfo rng_builtin_info = {
+    .name = TYPE_RNG_BUILTIN,
+    .parent = TYPE_RNG_BACKEND,
+    .instance_size = sizeof(RngBuiltin),
+    .class_init = rng_builtin_class_init,
+};
+
+static void register_types(void)
+{
+    type_register_static(&rng_builtin_info);
+}
+
+type_init(register_types);
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 0191ef8b1eb7..3e2a51c691b0 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -4280,13 +4280,21 @@ other options.
The @option{share} boolean option is @var{on} by default with memfd. address@hidden -object rng-builtin,address@hidden
+
+Creates a random number generator backend which obtains entropy from
+QEMU builtin functions. The @option{id} parameter is a unique ID that
+will be used to reference this entropy backend from the @option{virtio-rng}
+device.
+
  @item -object rng-random,address@hidden,address@hidden/dev/random}
Creates a random number generator backend which obtains entropy from
  a device on the host. The @option{id} parameter is a unique ID that
  will be used to reference this entropy backend from the @option{virtio-rng}
  device.

There's also the "spapr-rng" device, I think.

spapr-rng doesn't have default. You must specify one to be able to use it:
   qemu-system-ppc64: -device spapr-rng: spapr-rng needs an RNG backend!


          The @option{filename} parameter specifies which file to obtain
-entropy from and if omitted defaults to @option{/dev/random}.
+entropy from and if omitted defaults to @option{/dev/random}. By default,
+the @option{virtio-rng} device uses this RNG backend.
@item -object rng-egd,address@hidden,address@hidden

Trivial conflict with Kashyap's "[PATCH v2] VirtIO-RNG: Update default
entropy source to `/dev/urandom`".

virtio-rng indeed creates an rng-random backend when the user doesn't
specify one.  I consider having device model frontends create backends a
bad idea.  Not this patch's fault, of course.

That said, would rng-builtin be a better default?  For starters, it's
available when !CONFIG_POSIX.  I suspect virtio-rng crashes when it
tries to create an rng-random that isn't available.

I will send a v3 with rng-builtin as a default. Maintainer will be able to pick one of his choice, v2 or v3.


The new rng-builtin is considerably simpler than both rng-random and
rng-egd.  Moreover, it just works, whereas rng-random is limited to
CONFIG_POSIX, and rng-egd needs egd running (which I suspect basically
nobody does).  Have we considered deprecating these two backends in
favor of rng-builtin?

I have several bugzilla involving these backends: as there are blocking, the virtio-rng device in the guest can hang, or crash during hot-unplug. From my point of view, life would be easier without them...

Thanks,
Laurent




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