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| author | Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> | 2022-05-13 16:57:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> | 2022-05-23 18:47:50 +0300 |
| commit | fcd7c26901c83681532c6daac599e53d4df11738 (patch) | |
| tree | 80e61e94c05de33043fefb0e4970e53e32c4f16b /Documentation/admin-guide | |
| parent | be07858fbf8115fc74528292c2ee8775fe49116f (diff) | |
KEYS: trusted: allow use of kernel RNG for key material
The two existing trusted key sources don't make use of the kernel RNG,
but instead let the hardware doing the sealing/unsealing also
generate the random key material. However, both users and future
backends may want to place less trust into the quality of the trust
source's random number generator and instead reuse the kernel entropy
pool, which can be seeded from multiple entropy sources.
Make this possible by adding a new trusted.rng parameter,
that will force use of the kernel RNG. In its absence, it's up
to the trust source to decide, which random numbers to use,
maintaining the existing behavior.
Suggested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gstir <david@sigma-star.at>
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc> # on ls1028a (non-E and E)
Tested-by: John Ernberg <john.ernberg@actia.se> # iMX8QXP
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 3f1cc5e317ed..4deed1908a75 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -5963,6 +5963,16 @@ first trust source as a backend which is initialized successfully during iteration. + trusted.rng= [KEYS] + Format: <string> + The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. + Can be one of: + - "kernel" + - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" + - "default" + If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, + the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. + tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. Format: <string> [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this |