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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-03-29 18:48:54 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-03-29 18:48:54 -0400
commit64c27237a07129758e33f5f824ba5c33b7f57417 (patch)
tree4c0c0a9b6d282d600f2226e1b3510096b9d789dd /lib
parentphy/at8031: enable at8031 to work on interrupt mode (diff)
parentMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net (diff)
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c The mvneta.c conflict is a case of overlapping changes, a conversion to devm_ioremap_resource() vs. a conversion to netdev_alloc_pcpu_stats. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/random32.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/random32.c b/lib/random32.c
index 1e5b2df44291..614896778700 100644
--- a/lib/random32.c
+++ b/lib/random32.c
@@ -244,8 +244,19 @@ static void __prandom_reseed(bool late)
static bool latch = false;
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lock);
+ /* Asking for random bytes might result in bytes getting
+ * moved into the nonblocking pool and thus marking it
+ * as initialized. In this case we would double back into
+ * this function and attempt to do a late reseed.
+ * Ignore the pointless attempt to reseed again if we're
+ * already waiting for bytes when the nonblocking pool
+ * got initialized.
+ */
+
/* only allow initial seeding (late == false) once */
- spin_lock_irqsave(&lock, flags);
+ if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&lock, flags))
+ return;
+
if (latch && !late)
goto out;
latch = true;