Acked-by:  James Smart  <james.sm...@emulex.com>

-- james  s



On 7/31/2014 4:08 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
In prandom we have already reseeding mechanisms that trigger
periodically from a much better entropy source than just
feeding in jiffies through lpfc_mbx_cmpl_fcf_scan_read_fcf_rec()
[what a function name 8-)]. Therefore, just remove this.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dbork...@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <jbottom...@parallels.com>
Cc: James Smart <james.sm...@emulex.com>
---
  This can also go via James, how you prefer it.

  drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hbadisc.c | 4 ----
  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hbadisc.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hbadisc.c
index 2a17e31..5072bb2 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hbadisc.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hbadisc.c
@@ -2146,7 +2146,6 @@ lpfc_mbx_cmpl_fcf_scan_read_fcf_rec(struct lpfc_hba 
*phba, LPFC_MBOXQ_t *mboxq)
        uint16_t fcf_index, next_fcf_index;
        struct lpfc_fcf_rec *fcf_rec = NULL;
        uint16_t vlan_id;
-       uint32_t seed;
        bool select_new_fcf;
        int rc;
@@ -2383,9 +2382,6 @@ lpfc_mbx_cmpl_fcf_scan_read_fcf_rec(struct lpfc_hba *phba, LPFC_MBOXQ_t *mboxq)
                phba->fcf.fcf_flag |= FCF_AVAILABLE;
                /* Setup initial running random FCF selection count */
                phba->fcf.eligible_fcf_cnt = 1;
-               /* Seeding the random number generator for random selection */
-               seed = (uint32_t)(0xFFFFFFFF & jiffies);
-               prandom_seed(seed);
        }
        spin_unlock_irq(&phba->hbalock);
        goto read_next_fcf;

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