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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2017-06-07 19:01:32 -0400 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-04-13 19:50:24 +0200 |
| commit | 031987b6beaa02f64aa4428329e34ee3c5b3c76f (patch) | |
| tree | a738f88d7dd437ef4a3e80730a2cd4693b33e70f /include/linux/compiler-clang.h | |
| parent | db203ab2402dbb9b58b038b8f9097a997f4d8a76 (diff) | |
random: use lockless method of accessing and updating f->reg_idx
commit 92e75428ffc90e2a0321062379f883f3671cfebe upstream.
Linus pointed out that there is a much more efficient way of avoiding
the problem that we were trying to address in commit 9dfa7bba35ac0:
"fix race in drivers/char/random.c:get_reg()".
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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