CVE-2026-80835

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.