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random32: add prandom_init_once helper for own rngs 

Add a prandom_init_once() facility that works on the rnd_state, so that
users that are keeping their own state independent from prandom_u32() can
initialize their taus113 per cpu states.

The motivation here is similar to net_get_random_once(): initialize the
state as late as possible in the hope that enough entropy has been
collected for the seeding. prandom_init_once() makes use of the recently
introduced prandom_seed_full_state() helper and is generic enough so that
it could also be used on fast-paths due to the DO_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Daniel Borkmann 2015-10-08 01:20:38 +02:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 0dd50d1b0c
commit 897ece56e7
2 changed files with 7 additions and 1 deletions
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include/linux/random.h
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@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
#define _LINUX_RANDOM_H
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/once.h>
#include <uapi/linux/random.h>
struct random_ready_callback {
@ -45,6 +47,10 @@ struct rnd_state {
u32 prandom_u32_state(struct rnd_state *state);
void prandom_bytes_state(struct rnd_state *state, void *buf, size_t nbytes);
void prandom_seed_full_state(struct rnd_state __percpu *pcpu_state);
#define prandom_init_once(pcpu_state) \
DO_ONCE(prandom_seed_full_state, (pcpu_state))
/**
* prandom_u32_max - returns a pseudo-random number in interval [0, ep_ro)

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lib/random32.c
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@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static void __init __prandom_start_seed_timer(void)
add_timer(&seed_timer);
}
static void prandom_seed_full_state(struct rnd_state __percpu *pcpu_state)
void prandom_seed_full_state(struct rnd_state __percpu *pcpu_state)
{
int i;