Commit 61407f80 authored Apr 03, 2008 by Andi Kleen Committed by David S. Miller Apr 03, 2008

[NET]: srandom32 fixes for networking v2



- Let it update the state of all CPUs. The network stack goes
into pains to feed the current IP addresses in, but it is not very
effective if that is only done for some random CPU instead of all.
So change it to feed bits into all CPUs.  I decided to do that lockless 
because well somewhat random results are ok.

v2: Drop rename so that this patch doesn't depend on x86 maintainers

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 84f59370

lib/random32.c

+9 −4

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		@@ -97,13 +97,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(random32);
		* @seed: seed value
		*
		* Add some additional seeding to the random32() pool.
		* Note: this pool is per cpu so it only affects current CPU.
		*/
		void srandom32(u32 entropy)
		{
		struct rnd_state *state = &get_cpu_var(net_rand_state);
		int i;
		/*
		* No locking on the CPUs, but then somewhat random results are, well,
		* expected.
		*/
		for_each_possible_cpu (i) {
		struct rnd_state *state = &per_cpu(net_rand_state, i);
		__set_random32(state, state->s1 ^ entropy);
		put_cpu_var(state);
		}
		}
		EXPORT_SYMBOL(srandom32);

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