CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-80835
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: qcom-rng - Remove crypto_rng interface
qcom-rng.c exposes the same hardware through two completely separate
interfaces, crypto_rng and hwrng. However, the implementation of this
is buggy because it permits generation operations from these interfaces
to run concurrently with each other, accessing the same registers. That
is, qcom_rng_generate() synchronizes with itself but not with
qcom_hwrng_read(). This results in potential repetition of output from
the RNG, output of non-random values, etc.
Fortunately, there's actually no point in hardware RNG drivers
implementing the crypto_rng interface. It's not actually used by
anything besides the "rng" algorithm type of AF_ALG, which in turn is
not actually used in practice. Other crypto_rng hardware drivers are
likewise being phased out, leaving just the hwrng support.
Thus, remove it to simplify the code and avoid conflict (and confusion)
with the hwrng interface which is the one that actually matters.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14d9ee8286460a7b82f3b8610b5c7ebf4550b06b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ecdf5c9910e20f73639bc322f0518a3439d17c0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/669d940351eda316b82e24986e2e0e057653ce7d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/843e2bdaf8deb8bc341203094dfe582e38ea4af2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb474dcd9d0224264a27a60891f00872b879835f git.kernel.org