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authorDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2015-10-08 01:20:38 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-10-08 05:26:38 -0700
commit897ece56e714a2cc64e6914cb89a362d7021b36e (patch)
treec965cddb6a87f0bc6d96cceaa36efe42af8158da /include/linux/random.h
parent0dd50d1b0c003ab4f17597fe1198bb57a2fadc06 (diff)
random32: add prandom_init_once helper for own rngs
Add a prandom_init_once() facility that works on the rnd_state, so that users that are keeping their own state independent from prandom_u32() can initialize their taus113 per cpu states. The motivation here is similar to net_get_random_once(): initialize the state as late as possible in the hope that enough entropy has been collected for the seeding. prandom_init_once() makes use of the recently introduced prandom_seed_full_state() helper and is generic enough so that it could also be used on fast-paths due to the DO_ONCE(). Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/random.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/random.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/random.h b/include/linux/random.h
index e651874df2c9..a75840c1aa71 100644
--- a/include/linux/random.h
+++ b/include/linux/random.h
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
#define _LINUX_RANDOM_H
#include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/once.h>
+
#include <uapi/linux/random.h>
struct random_ready_callback {
@@ -45,6 +47,10 @@ struct rnd_state {
u32 prandom_u32_state(struct rnd_state *state);
void prandom_bytes_state(struct rnd_state *state, void *buf, size_t nbytes);
+void prandom_seed_full_state(struct rnd_state __percpu *pcpu_state);
+
+#define prandom_init_once(pcpu_state) \
+ DO_ONCE(prandom_seed_full_state, (pcpu_state))
/**
* prandom_u32_max - returns a pseudo-random number in interval [0, ep_ro)