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LRNG - add interface for gathering of raw entropy
The test interface allows a privileged process to capture the raw unconditioned noise that is collected by the LRNG for statistical analysis. Such testing allows the analysis how much entropy the interrupt noise source provides on a given platform. Extracted noise data is not used to seed the LRNG. This is a test interface and not appropriate for production systems. Yet, the interface is considered to be sufficiently secured for production systems. Access to the data is given through the lrng_raw debugfs file. The data buffer should be multiples of sizeof(u32) to fill the entire buffer. Using the option lrng_testing.boot_test=1 the raw noise of the first 1000 entropy events since boot can be sampled. This test interface allows generating the data required for analysis whether the LRNG is in compliance with SP800-90B sections 3.1.3 and 3.1.4. In addition, the test interface allows gathering of the conatenated raw entropy data to verify that the concatenation works appropriately. This includes sampling of the following raw data: * high-resolution time stamp * Jiffies * IRQ number * IRQ flags * return instruction pointer * array logic batching the high-resolution time stamp Finally, the execution duration for processing a time stamp can be obtained with the LRNG raw entropy interface. If a test interface is not compiled, its code is a noop which has no impact on the performance. CC: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> CC: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com> CC: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com> CC: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> CC: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> CC: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> CC: Vito Caputo <vcaputo@pengaru.com> CC: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca> CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> CC: Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> CC: William Jon McCann <mccann@jhu.edu> CC: zhangjs <zachary@baishancloud.com> CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> CC: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> CC: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> CC: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Roman Drahtmueller <draht@schaltsekun.de> Tested-by: Roman Drahtmüller <draht@schaltsekun.de> Tested-by: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com> Tested-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
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