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random: properly align get_random_int_hash 

get_random_long() reads from the get_random_int_hash array using an
unsigned long pointer.  For this code to be guaranteed correct on all
architectures, the array must be aligned to an unsigned long boundary.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Eric Biggers 2016-05-04 21:08:39 -04:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent 4b44f2d18a
commit b1132deac0
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -1778,13 +1778,15 @@ int random_int_secret_init(void)
return 0;
}
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(__u32 [MD5_DIGEST_WORDS], get_random_int_hash)
__aligned(sizeof(unsigned long));
/*
* Get a random word for internal kernel use only. Similar to urandom but
* with the goal of minimal entropy pool depletion. As a result, the random
* value is not cryptographically secure but for several uses the cost of
* depleting entropy is too high
*/
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(__u32 [MD5_DIGEST_WORDS], get_random_int_hash);
unsigned int get_random_int(void)
{
__u32 *hash;