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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-02-27 12:46:16 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-02-27 12:46:16 -0800
commit691429e13dfaf5b0994b07cc166db41bd608ee3d (patch)
treebf52870108822c40d9a83d3c402c59d5f15cc6af /drivers
parent1c271479b56da4a8caf5f56a88432d4260e120fe (diff)
parent7f6d5b529b7dfe2fca30cbf4bc81e16575090025 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge fixes from Andrew Morton: "10 fixes" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: dax: move writeback calls into the filesystems dax: give DAX clearing code correct bdev ext4: online defrag not supported with DAX ext2, ext4: only set S_DAX for regular inodes block: disable block device DAX by default ocfs2: unlock inode if deleting inode from orphan fails mm: ASLR: use get_random_long() drivers: char: random: add get_random_long() mm: numa: quickly fail allocations for NUMA balancing on full nodes mm: thp: fix SMP race condition between THP page fault and MADV_DONTNEED
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c22
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index d0da5d852d41..b583e5336630 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1819,6 +1819,28 @@ unsigned int get_random_int(void)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_random_int);
/*
+ * Same as get_random_int(), but returns unsigned long.
+ */
+unsigned long get_random_long(void)
+{
+ __u32 *hash;
+ unsigned long ret;
+
+ if (arch_get_random_long(&ret))
+ return ret;
+
+ hash = get_cpu_var(get_random_int_hash);
+
+ hash[0] += current->pid + jiffies + random_get_entropy();
+ md5_transform(hash, random_int_secret);
+ ret = *(unsigned long *)hash;
+ put_cpu_var(get_random_int_hash);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_random_long);
+
+/*
* randomize_range() returns a start address such that
*
* [...... <range> .....]