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| author | Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> | 2022-04-08 19:14:57 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2022-05-30 10:33:40 +0300 |
| commit | a1b5c849d855c97f75375c564321961ad18b8f46 (patch) | |
| tree | 034cbb0fc6c611034f41521711685e9461b3509f /include | |
| parent | 72a9ec8d75142aaf818cdf1492b5a421009d8b81 (diff) | |
| download | linux-a1b5c849d855c97f75375c564321961ad18b8f46.tar.xz | |
random: make random_get_entropy() return an unsigned long
commit b0c3e796f24b588b862b61ce235d3c9417dc8983 upstream.
Some implementations were returning type `unsigned long`, while others
that fell back to get_cycles() were implicitly returning a `cycles_t` or
an untyped constant int literal. That makes for weird and confusing
code, and basically all code in the kernel already handled it like it
was an `unsigned long`. I recently tried to handle it as the largest
type it could be, a `cycles_t`, but doing so doesn't really help with
much.
Instead let's just make random_get_entropy() return an unsigned long all
the time. This also matches the commonly used `arch_get_random_long()`
function, so now RDRAND and RDTSC return the same sized integer, which
means one can fallback to the other more gracefully.
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/timex.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/timex.h b/include/linux/timex.h index ce0859763670..e5154378076d 100644 --- a/include/linux/timex.h +++ b/include/linux/timex.h @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ * By default we use get_cycles() for this purpose, but individual * architectures may override this in their asm/timex.h header file. */ -#define random_get_entropy() get_cycles() +#define random_get_entropy() ((unsigned long)get_cycles()) #endif /* |