From: Jason A. Donenfeld Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 00:20:22 +0000 (+0200) Subject: init: call time_init() before rand_initialize() X-Git-Tag: v4.14.285~91 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4798c86f1b70e391acddc532bbac0a243e014c4c;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git init: call time_init() before rand_initialize() commit fe222a6ca2d53c38433cba5d3be62a39099e708e upstream. Currently time_init() is called after rand_initialize(), but rand_initialize() makes use of the timer on various platforms, and sometimes this timer needs to be initialized by time_init() first. In order for random_get_entropy() to not return zero during early boot when it's potentially used as an entropy source, reverse the order of these two calls. The block doing random initialization was right before time_init() before, so changing the order shouldn't have any complicated effects. Cc: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Stafford Horne Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index 6c2c39b3cccdf..cb18c6d7b5528 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -607,11 +607,13 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_kernel(void) hrtimers_init(); softirq_init(); timekeeping_init(); + time_init(); /* * For best initial stack canary entropy, prepare it after: * - setup_arch() for any UEFI RNG entropy and boot cmdline access * - timekeeping_init() for ktime entropy used in rand_initialize() + * - time_init() for making random_get_entropy() work on some platforms * - rand_initialize() to get any arch-specific entropy like RDRAND * - add_latent_entropy() to get any latent entropy * - adding command line entropy @@ -621,7 +623,6 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_kernel(void) add_device_randomness(command_line, strlen(command_line)); boot_init_stack_canary(); - time_init(); sched_clock_postinit(); printk_safe_init(); perf_event_init();