[edk2-devel] [PATCH v6 4/5] ArmVirtPkg: Add RngLib based on TimerLib for CryptoPkg

Laszlo Ersek lersek at redhat.com
Thu Aug 13 08:31:11 UTC 2020


On 08/13/20 00:43, matthewfcarlson at gmail.com wrote:
> From: Matthew Carlson <macarl at microsoft.com>
> 
> Updates the DSC for the ArmVirtPkg platform to add a RngLib that uses the
> TimerLib. This is due to a later change that adds TimerLib as a dependency
> for OpenSSL. The TimerLib based RngLib mimics the behavior of OpenSSL
> previously and it is recommended to switch to a better source of
> entropy than the system's performance counter.
> 
> Ref: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/845
> Ref: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1871
> 
> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at arm.com>
> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif at nuviainc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Carlson <matthewfcarlson at gmail.com>
> ---
>  ArmVirtPkg/ArmVirt.dsc.inc | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/ArmVirtPkg/ArmVirt.dsc.inc b/ArmVirtPkg/ArmVirt.dsc.inc
> index cf44fc73890b..cb3845d2bd37 100644
> --- a/ArmVirtPkg/ArmVirt.dsc.inc
> +++ b/ArmVirtPkg/ArmVirt.dsc.inc
> @@ -160,6 +160,7 @@
>    OpensslLib|CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/OpensslLibCrypto.inf
>  !endif
>    BaseCryptLib|CryptoPkg/Library/BaseCryptLib/BaseCryptLib.inf
> +  RngLib|MdePkg/Library/BaseRngLibTimerLib/BaseRngLibTimerLib.inf
>  
>    #
>    # Secure Boot dependencies
> 

Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>


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