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crypto: atmel-sha204a - Set hwrng quality to lowest possible
authorMarek Behún <kabel@kernel.org>
Tue, 22 Apr 2025 09:57:18 +0000 (11:57 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 2 May 2025 05:50:46 +0000 (07:50 +0200)
commit284db2f35b39081b00b2e76b92949463b7fc460a
tree64ff7e23dec8b869aa2ad1607999362d91c6e9e0
parentad787442af7b48d6bf6393fb6d2cda28d9d9304d
crypto: atmel-sha204a - Set hwrng quality to lowest possible

commit 8006aff15516a170640239c5a8e6696c0ba18d8e upstream.

According to the review by Bill Cox [1], the Atmel SHA204A random number
generator produces random numbers with very low entropy.

Set the lowest possible entropy for this chip just to be safe.

[1] https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2014-December/023858.html

Fixes: da001fb651b00e1d ("crypto: atmel-i2c - add support for SHA204A random number generator")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <kabel@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c