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random32: add prandom_init_once helper for own rngs

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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>
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Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-08 01:20:38 +02:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 0dd50d1b0c
commit 897ece56e7
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@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static void __init __prandom_start_seed_timer(void)
add_timer(&seed_timer);
}
static void prandom_seed_full_state(struct rnd_state __percpu *pcpu_state)
void prandom_seed_full_state(struct rnd_state __percpu *pcpu_state)
{
int i;