| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [ 18/44] random: Adjust the number of loops when initializing | Date | Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:02:25 -0700 |
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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
commit 2dac8e54f988ab58525505d7ef982493374433c3 upstream.
When we are initializing using arch_get_random_long() we only need to loop enough times to touch all the bytes in the buffer; using poolwords for that does twice the number of operations necessary on a 64-bit machine, since in the random number generator code "word" means 32 bits.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324589281-31931-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- drivers/char/random.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ static void init_std_data(struct entropy now = ktime_get_real(); mix_pool_bytes(r, &now, sizeof(now)); - for (i = r->poolinfo->poolwords; i; i--) { + for (i = r->poolinfo->POOLBYTES; i > 0; i -= sizeof flags) { if (!arch_get_random_long(&flags)) break; mix_pool_bytes(r, &flags, sizeof(flags));
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