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    crypto: testmgr - fix RNG performance in fuzz tests · f900fde2
    Eric Biggers authored
    The performance of the crypto fuzz tests has greatly regressed since
    v5.18.  When booting a kernel on an arm64 dev board with all software
    crypto algorithms and CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_EXTRA_TESTS enabled, the
    fuzz tests now take about 200 seconds to run, or about 325 seconds with
    lockdep enabled, compared to about 5 seconds before.
    
    The root cause is that the random number generation has become much
    slower due to commit d4150779 ("random32: use real rng for
    non-deterministic randomness").  On my same arm64 dev board, at the time
    the fuzz tests are run, get_random_u8() is about 345x slower than
    prandom_u32_state(), or about 469x if lockdep is enabled.
    
    Lockdep makes a big difference, but much of the rest comes from the
    get_random_*() functions taking a *very* slow path when the CRNG is not
    yet initialized.  Since the crypto self-tests run early during boot,
    even having a hardware RNG driver enabled (CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_QCOM_RNG in
    my case) doesn't prevent this.  x86 systems don't have this issue, but
    they still see a significant regression if lockdep is enabled.
    
    Converting the "Fully random bytes" case in generate_random_bytes() to
    use get_random_bytes() helps significantly, improving the test time to
    about 27 seconds.  But that's still over 5x slower than before.
    
    This is all a bit silly, though, since the fuzz tests don't actually
    need cryptographically secure random numbers.  So let's just make them
    use a non-cryptographically-secure RNG as they did before.  The original
    prandom_u32() is gone now, so let's use prandom_u32_state() instead,
    with an explicitly managed state, like various other self-tests in the
    kernel source tree (rbtree_test.c, test_scanf.c, etc.) already do.  This
    also has the benefit that no locking is required anymore, so performance
    should be even better than the original version that used prandom_u32().
    
    Fixes: d4150779 ("random32: use real rng for non-deterministic randomness")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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