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Enable RDRAND for all x86_64 except known prohibitively slow CPU models #2135

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Description of changes:

Remove the need to have a "fast" rdrand. Instead flip the model to exclude known prohibitively slow rdrand implementations. In particular, this includes the AMD Zen1 and Zen2 generation microarchitectures. See q/VxC3AiwXpAjJ for some data on that.

This change is made to increase the usage of prediction resistance.

Testing:

To test the new family detection, I patched like this:

$ git diff
diff --git a/crypto/fipsmodule/cpucap/cpu_intel.c b/crypto/fipsmodule/cpucap/cpu_intel.c
index 8504ec3c4..96bdb6199 100644
--- a/crypto/fipsmodule/cpucap/cpu_intel.c
+++ b/crypto/fipsmodule/cpucap/cpu_intel.c
@@ -242,7 +242,10 @@ void OPENSSL_cpuid_setup(void) {
     }
 
     if (amd_rdrand_maybe_apply_restrictions(family, model) != 0) {
+      printf("amd_rdrand_maybe_apply_restrictions() returned 1\n");
       ecx &= ~(1u << 30);
+    } else {
+      printf("amd_rdrand_maybe_apply_restrictions() returned 0\n");
     }
   }

and ran the code on both a c5a and c6a instance. The former is Zen2 based, the latter is Zen3 based.

c5a:

$ ./tool/bssl version
amd_rdrand_maybe_apply_restrictions() returned 1

c6a:

$ ./tool/bssl version
amd_rdrand_maybe_apply_restrictions() returned 0

By submitting this pull request, I confirm that my contribution is made under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license and the ISC license.

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Attention: Patch coverage is 80.00000% with 2 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 78.73%. Comparing base (2637eda) to head (a8bb430).

Files with missing lines Patch % Lines
crypto/fipsmodule/cpucap/cpu_intel.c 71.42% 2 Missing ⚠️
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