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It appears that rngd is not needed as of linux-5.6 and later[1]
and should not be installed by default since the purpose of rngd
is to provide additional trusted sources of entropy.
We did some testing on real hardware, the result seems to support that
we no longer need rngd by default on kernel v5.6 and later.
Testing result as below:
1. observing the crng init stage.
the "random: crng init done" always available before fs being mounted.
2. generating random number without rngd.
testing command: dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/null status=progress
on Marvell CN96xx RDB board, speed almost 20.4 MB/s without block
on NXP i.mx6q board, speed almost 31.9 MB/s without block
on qemu x86-64, speed almost 2.6MB/s without block
3. using rngtest command without rngd
testing command: rngtest -c 1000 </dev/random
on Marvell CN96xx RDB board:
rngtest: input channel speed: (min=4.340; avg=135.364; max=146.719)Mibits/s
rngtest: FIPS tests speed: (min=8.197; avg=69.020; max=72.800)Mibits/s
rngtest: Program run time: 418771 microseconds
on NXP i.mx6q board:
rngtest: input channel speed: (min=96.820; avg=326.769; max=340.598)Mibits/s
rngtest: FIPS tests speed: (min=15.090; avg=37.543; max=40.324)Mibits/s
rngtest: Program run time: 570229 microseconds
on qemu x86-64:
rngtest: input channel speed: (min=37.769; avg=101.136; max=136.239)Mibits/s
rngtest: FIPS tests speed: (min=10.288; avg=30.682; max=40.155)Mibits/s
rngtest: Program run time: 836800 microseconds
4. observing sshd service.
using "systemctl disable rng-tools" disable service and reboot system.
system boot up normal, sshd service also start in normal time without
block.
Reference:
[1] 30c08efec8
(From OE-Core rev: 868dfb46d96a27ec9041cb902fb769330277257d)
Signed-off-by: Xiangyu Chen <xiangyu.chen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>