From: Greg KH <[email protected]> 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> commit 2dac8e54f988ab58525505d7ef982493374433c3 upstream. When we are initializing using arch_get_random_long() we only need to loop enough times to touch all the bytes in the buffer; using poolwords for that does twice the number of operations necessary on a 64-bit machine, since in the random number generator code "word" means 32 bits. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- drivers/char/random.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ static void init_std_data(struct entropy now = ktime_get_real(); mix_pool_bytes(r, &now, sizeof(now)); - for (i = r->poolinfo->poolwords; i; i--) { + for (i = r->poolinfo->POOLBYTES; i > 0; i -= sizeof flags) { if (!arch_get_random_long(&flags)) break; mix_pool_bytes(r, &flags, sizeof(flags)); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
