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Subject[PATCH 4.9 168/264] random: re-add removed comment about get_random_{u32,u64} reseeding
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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>

commit dd7aa36e535797926d8eb311da7151919130139d upstream.

The comment about get_random_{u32,u64}() not invoking reseeding got
added in an unrelated commit, that then was recently reverted by
0313bc278dac ("Revert "random: block in /dev/urandom""). So this adds
that little comment snippet back, and improves the wording a bit too.

Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/char/random.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -227,9 +227,10 @@ static void _warn_unseeded_randomness(co
*
* These interfaces will return the requested number of random bytes
* into the given buffer or as a return value. This is equivalent to
- * a read from /dev/urandom. The integer family of functions may be
- * higher performance for one-off random integers, because they do a
- * bit of buffering.
+ * a read from /dev/urandom. The u32, u64, int, and long family of
+ * functions may be higher performance for one-off random integers,
+ * because they do a bit of buffering and do not invoke reseeding
+ * until the buffer is emptied.
*
*********************************************************************/


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