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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2022-12-13 14:27:16 +0100
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2022-12-13 14:27:16 +0100
commitcfd1f6c16f7deadfe5269a76c1516405c4466481 (patch)
tree44c0635e57e9627d9838c0d0d5801381b93ccccd /include/linux/prandom.h
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parentfd7b68b763c4dfa65e3c145c624427d5fd11202f (diff)
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Merge branch 'for-6.2/apple' into for-linus
- new quirks for select Apple keyboards (Kerem Karabay, Aditya Garg)
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/prandom.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/prandom.h25
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/prandom.h b/include/linux/prandom.h
index deace5fb4e62..e0a0759dd09c 100644
--- a/include/linux/prandom.h
+++ b/include/linux/prandom.h
@@ -12,16 +12,6 @@
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <linux/random.h>
-static inline u32 prandom_u32(void)
-{
- return get_random_u32();
-}
-
-static inline void prandom_bytes(void *buf, size_t nbytes)
-{
- return get_random_bytes(buf, nbytes);
-}
-
struct rnd_state {
__u32 s1, s2, s3, s4;
};
@@ -37,17 +27,20 @@ void prandom_seed_full_state(struct rnd_state __percpu *pcpu_state);
* prandom_u32_max - returns a pseudo-random number in interval [0, ep_ro)
* @ep_ro: right open interval endpoint
*
- * Returns a pseudo-random number that is in interval [0, ep_ro). Note
- * that the result depends on PRNG being well distributed in [0, ~0U]
- * u32 space. Here we use maximally equidistributed combined Tausworthe
- * generator, that is, prandom_u32(). This is useful when requesting a
- * random index of an array containing ep_ro elements, for example.
+ * Returns a pseudo-random number that is in interval [0, ep_ro). This is
+ * useful when requesting a random index of an array containing ep_ro elements,
+ * for example. The result is somewhat biased when ep_ro is not a power of 2,
+ * so do not use this for cryptographic purposes.
*
* Returns: pseudo-random number in interval [0, ep_ro)
*/
static inline u32 prandom_u32_max(u32 ep_ro)
{
- return (u32)(((u64) prandom_u32() * ep_ro) >> 32);
+ if (__builtin_constant_p(ep_ro <= 1U << 8) && ep_ro <= 1U << 8)
+ return (get_random_u8() * ep_ro) >> 8;
+ if (__builtin_constant_p(ep_ro <= 1U << 16) && ep_ro <= 1U << 16)
+ return (get_random_u16() * ep_ro) >> 16;
+ return ((u64)get_random_u32() * ep_ro) >> 32;
}
/*