Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 2/4] rng-builtin: add an RNG backend that uses qemu_guest_getrandom()

[Markus Armbruster]

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 ...
>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <address@hidden>
> ---
>  backends/Makefile.objs |  2 +-
>  backends/rng-builtin.c | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  qemu-options.hx        |  7 ++++
>  3 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 backends/rng-builtin.c
>
> diff --git a/backends/Makefile.objs b/backends/Makefile.objs
> index 981e8e122f2c..f0691116e86e 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..3381d47174df
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/backends/rng-builtin.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
> +/*
> + * 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 "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;
> +    QEMUBH *bh;
> +} RngBuiltin;
> +
> +static void rng_builtin_receive_entropy_bh(void *opaque)
> +{
> +    RngBuiltin *s = opaque;
> +
> +    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_request_entropy(RngBackend *b, RngRequest *req)
> +{
> +    RngBuiltin *s = RNG_BUILTIN(b);
> +
> +    qemu_bh_schedule(s->bh);
> +}

A comment explaining the need for a BH would be nice.

Regardless:
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>

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