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authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>2013-09-25 19:24:17 +1000
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2013-10-07 14:17:01 +0800
commitd319fe2a0af3509f959d5195fb8916accbf14857 (patch)
tree284b5ea5a9ffe4536c30e41042ee58a697ea9822 /drivers/char/hw_random
parent49cca7e047468f5f80970d635b54afabeb441cce (diff)
downloadlinux-d319fe2a0af3509f959d5195fb8916accbf14857.tar.bz2
hwrng: pseries - Return errors to upper levels in pseries-rng.c
We don't expect to get errors from the hypervisor when reading the rng, but if we do we should pass the error up to the hwrng driver. Otherwise the hwrng driver will continue calling us forever. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/hw_random')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/hw_random/pseries-rng.c14
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/pseries-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/pseries-rng.c
index 9dbeed391e57..ab7ffdec0ec3 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/pseries-rng.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/pseries-rng.c
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*/
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
+
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/hw_random.h>
#include <asm/vio.h>
@@ -24,10 +27,15 @@
static int pseries_rng_data_read(struct hwrng *rng, u32 *data)
{
- if (plpar_hcall(H_RANDOM, (unsigned long *)data) != H_SUCCESS) {
- printk(KERN_ERR "pseries rng hcall error\n");
- return 0;
+ int rc;
+
+ rc = plpar_hcall(H_RANDOM, (unsigned long *)data);
+ if (rc != H_SUCCESS) {
+ pr_err_ratelimited("H_RANDOM call failed %d\n", rc);
+ return -EIO;
}
+
+ /* The hypervisor interface returns 64 bits */
return 8;
}