hwrng: n2 - limit error spewage when self-test fails

If the self-test fails, it probably won't actually suddenly
start working.  Currently, this causes an endless spew of
error messages on the console and in the logs, so this patch
adds a limiter to the test.

Reported-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Shannon Nelson 2017-01-12 10:52:46 -08:00 committed by Herbert Xu
parent de0f96d772
commit db602a7f94
1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -589,6 +589,7 @@ static void n2rng_work(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct n2rng *np = container_of(work, struct n2rng, work.work);
int err = 0;
static int retries = 4;
if (!(np->flags & N2RNG_FLAG_CONTROL)) {
err = n2rng_guest_check(np);
@ -606,7 +607,9 @@ static void n2rng_work(struct work_struct *work)
dev_info(&np->op->dev, "RNG ready\n");
}
if (err && !(np->flags & N2RNG_FLAG_SHUTDOWN))
if (--retries == 0)
dev_err(&np->op->dev, "Self-test retries failed, RNG not ready\n");
else if (err && !(np->flags & N2RNG_FLAG_SHUTDOWN))
schedule_delayed_work(&np->work, HZ * 2);
}