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authorHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>2013-10-23 20:05:27 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-10-25 19:03:39 -0400
commitf84be2bd96a108b09c8440263fa3adb3fb225fa3 (patch)
treead341d7bcd581cba4d38d39296692256d8a747d5 /include/linux/net.h
parentnet: add missing dev_put() in __netdev_adjacent_dev_insert (diff)
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net: make net_get_random_once irq safe
I initial build non irq safe version of net_get_random_once because I would liked to have the freedom to defer even the extraction process of get_random_bytes until the nonblocking pool is fully seeded. I don't think this is a good idea anymore and thus this patch makes net_get_random_once irq safe. Now someone using net_get_random_once does not need to care from where it is called. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/include/linux/net.h b/include/linux/net.h
index aca446b46754..b292a0435571 100644
--- a/include/linux/net.h
+++ b/include/linux/net.h
@@ -250,7 +250,6 @@ bool __net_get_random_once(void *buf, int nbytes, bool *done,
#define ___NET_RANDOM_STATIC_KEY_INIT STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE
#endif /* HAVE_JUMP_LABEL */
-/* BE CAREFUL: this function is not interrupt safe */
#define net_get_random_once(buf, nbytes) \
({ \
bool ___ret = false; \