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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2013-11-08 00:14:53 -0500 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2013-11-08 00:14:53 -0500 |
| commit | dd1f723bf56bd96efc9d90e9e60dc511c79de48f (patch) | |
| tree | 3860500165c69c225ccd5121f2ffde93dfbf4f02 /fs/ext4/super.c | |
| parent | f2754114400afe38ad5ade3b588451c4f36a61af (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-dd1f723bf56bd96efc9d90e9e60dc511c79de48f.zip op-kernel-dev-dd1f723bf56bd96efc9d90e9e60dc511c79de48f.tar.gz | |
ext4: use prandom_u32() instead of get_random_bytes()
Many of the uses of get_random_bytes() do not actually need
cryptographically secure random numbers. Replace those uses with a
call to prandom_u32(), which is faster and which doesn't consume
entropy from the /dev/random driver.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/super.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/super.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index d3a857bf..c977f4e 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -3068,7 +3068,6 @@ static struct ext4_li_request *ext4_li_request_new(struct super_block *sb, { struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb); struct ext4_li_request *elr; - unsigned long rnd; elr = kzalloc(sizeof(*elr), GFP_KERNEL); if (!elr) @@ -3083,10 +3082,8 @@ static struct ext4_li_request *ext4_li_request_new(struct super_block *sb, * spread the inode table initialization requests * better. */ - get_random_bytes(&rnd, sizeof(rnd)); - elr->lr_next_sched = jiffies + (unsigned long)rnd % - (EXT4_DEF_LI_MAX_START_DELAY * HZ); - + elr->lr_next_sched = jiffies + (prandom_u32() % + (EXT4_DEF_LI_MAX_START_DELAY * HZ)); return elr; } |
