Hi William, Kees, On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:25:41AM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > From: William Roberts <[email protected]> > > Use a long when generating the random range rather than > an int. This will produce better random distributions as > well as matching all the types at hand. > > Signed-off-by: William Roberts <[email protected]> > --- > drivers/char/random.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Upon further review, I think we should dig into this a little bit deeper. Standby, I'll post an RFC series shortly. thx, Jason. > diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c > index 0158d3b..bbf11b5 100644 > --- a/drivers/char/random.c > +++ b/drivers/char/random.c > @@ -1837,7 +1837,8 @@ randomize_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, > unsigned long len) > > if (end <= start + len) > return 0; > - return PAGE_ALIGN(get_random_int() % range + start); > + > + return PAGE_ALIGN(get_random_long() % range + start); > } > > /* Interface for in-kernel drivers of true hardware RNGs. > -- > 1.9.1 >
