linux-toradex.git/drivers/char/random.c, branch v2.6.31.3

Avoid ICE in get_random_int() with gcc-3.4.5

2009-05-19T18:25:35+00:00

Martin Knoblauch reports that trying to build 2.6.30-rc6-git3 with
RHEL4.3 userspace (gcc (GCC) 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)) causes an
internal compiler error (ICE):

    drivers/char/random.c: In function `get_random_int':
    drivers/char/random.c:1672: error: unrecognizable insn:
    (insn 202 148 150 0 /scratch/build/linux-2.6.30-rc6-git3/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h:23 (set (reg:SI 0 ax [91])
            (subreg:SI (plus:DI (plus:DI (reg:DI 0 ax [88])
                        (subreg:DI (reg:SI 6 bp) 0))
                    (const_int -4 [0xfffffffffffffffc])) 0)) -1 (nil)
        (nil))
    drivers/char/random.c:1672: internal compiler error: in extract_insn, at recog.c:2083

and after some debugging it turns out that it's due to the code trying
to figure out the rough value of the current stack pointer by taking an
address of an uninitialized variable and casting that to an integer.

This is clearly a compiler bug, but it's not worth fighting - while the
current stack kernel pointer might be somewhat hard to predict in user
space, it's also not generally going to change for a lot of the call
chains for a particular process.

So just drop it, and mumble some incoherent curses at the compiler.

Tested-by: Martin Knoblauch 
Cc: Matt Mackall 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

random: make get_random_int() more random

2009-05-07T18:59:06+00:00

It's a really simple patch that basically just open-codes the current
"secure_ip_id()" call, but when open-coding it we now use a _static_
hashing area, so that it gets updated every time.

And to make sure somebody can't just start from the same original seed of
all-zeroes, and then do the "half_md4_transform()" over and over until
they get the same sequence as the kernel has, each iteration also mixes in
the same old "current->pid + jiffies" we used - so we should now have a
regular strong pseudo-number generator, but we also have one that doesn't
have a single seed.

Note: the "pid + jiffies" is just meant to be a tiny tiny bit of noise. It
has no real meaning. It could be anything. I just picked the previous
seed, it's just that now we keep the state in between calls and that will
feed into the next result, and that should make all the difference.

I made that hash be a per-cpu data just to avoid cache-line ping-pong:
having multiple CPU's write to the same data would be fine for randomness,
and add yet another layer of chaos to it, but since get_random_int() is
supposed to be a fast interface I did it that way instead. I considered
using "__raw_get_cpu_var()" to avoid any preemption overhead while still
getting the hash be _mostly_ ping-pong free, but in the end good taste won
out.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

random: align rekey_work's timer

2009-04-03T02:04:49+00:00

Align rekey_work. Even though it's infrequent, we may as well line it up.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Acked-by: Matt Mackall 
Cc: Theodore Ts'o 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sparseirq: fix build with unknown irq_desc struct

2009-01-11T15:06:03+00:00

Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> tip/kernel/fork.c: In function 'copy_signal':
> tip/kernel/fork.c:825: warning: unused variable 'ret'
> tip/drivers/char/random.c: In function 'get_timer_rand_state':
> tip/drivers/char/random.c:584: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> tip/drivers/char/random.c: In function 'set_timer_rand_state':
> tip/drivers/char/random.c:594: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> make[3]: *** [drivers/char/random.o] Error 1

irq_desc is defined in linux/irq.h, so include it in the genirq case.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sparseirq: make some func to be used with genirq

2009-01-11T03:46:26+00:00

Impact: clean up sparseirq fallout on random.c

Ingo suggested to change some ifdef from SPARSE_IRQ to GENERIC_HARDIRQS
so we could some #ifdef later if all arch support genirq

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
Acked-by: Matt Mackall 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

random: don't try to look at entropy_count outside the lock

2009-01-06T23:59:30+00:00

As a non-atomic value, it's only safe to look at entropy_count when the
pool lock is held, so we move the BUG_ON inside the lock for correctness.

Also remove the spurious comment.  It's ok for entropy_count to
temporarily exceed POOLBITS so long as it's left in a consistent state
when the lock is released.

This is a more correct, simple, and idiomatic fix for the bug in
8b76f46a2db.  I've left the reorderings introduced by that patch in place
as they're harmless, even though they don't properly deal with potential
atomicity issues.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sparseirq: move set/get_timer_rand_state back to .c

2009-01-03T20:01:23+00:00

those two functions only used in that C file

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sparse irq_desc[] array: core kernel and x86 changes

2008-12-08T13:31:51+00:00

Impact: new feature

Problem on distro kernels: irq_desc[NR_IRQS] takes megabytes of RAM with
NR_CPUS set to large values. The goal is to be able to scale up to much
larger NR_IRQS value without impacting the (important) common case.

To solve this, we generalize irq_desc[NR_IRQS] to an (optional) array of
irq_desc pointers.

When CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y is used, we use kzalloc_node to get irq_desc,
this also makes the IRQ descriptors NUMA-local (to the site that calls
request_irq()).

This gets rid of the irq_cfg[] static array on x86 as well: irq_cfg now
uses desc->chip_data for x86 to store irq_cfg.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

saner FASYNC handling on file close

2008-11-01T16:49:46+00:00

As it is, all instances of ->release() for files that have ->fasync()
need to remember to evict file from fasync lists; forgetting that
creates a hole and we actually have a bunch that *does* forget.

So let's keep our lives simple - let __fput() check FASYNC in
file->f_flags and call ->fasync() there if it's been set.  And lose that
crap in ->release() instances - leaving it there is still valid, but we
don't have to bother anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'genirq-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2008-10-20T20:23:01+00:00

This merges branches irq/genirq, irq/sparseirq-v4, timers/hpet-percpu
and x86/uv.

The sparseirq branch is just preliminary groundwork: no sparse IRQs are
actually implemented by this tree anymore - just the new APIs are added
while keeping the old way intact as well (the new APIs map 1:1 to
irq_desc[]).  The 'real' sparse IRQ support will then be a relatively
small patch ontop of this - with a v2.6.29 merge target.

* 'genirq-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (178 commits)
  genirq: improve include files
  intr_remapping: fix typo
  io_apic: make irq_mis_count available on 64-bit too
  genirq: fix name space collisions of nr_irqs in arch/*
  genirq: fix name space collision of nr_irqs in autoprobe.c
  genirq: use iterators for irq_desc loops
  proc: fixup irq iterator
  genirq: add reverse iterator for irq_desc
  x86: move ack_bad_irq() to irq.c
  x86: unify show_interrupts() and proc helpers
  x86: cleanup show_interrupts
  genirq: cleanup the sparseirq modifications
  genirq: remove artifacts from sparseirq removal
  genirq: revert dynarray
  genirq: remove irq_to_desc_alloc
  genirq: remove sparse irq code
  genirq: use inline function for irq_to_desc
  genirq: consolidate nr_irqs and for_each_irq_desc()
  x86: remove sparse irq from Kconfig
  genirq: define nr_irqs for architectures with GENERIC_HARDIRQS=n
  ...