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| author | Ingo Molnar | 2018-07-22 16:51:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o | 2018-07-24 21:44:32 +0200 |
| commit | b34fbaa9289328c7aec67d2b8b8b7d02bc61c67d (patch) | |
| tree | 856e8498c1293498a443b2007759cd36f54a5df6 /Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | random: add a config option to trust the CPU's hwrng (diff) | |
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random: remove preempt disabled region
No need to keep preemption disabled across the whole function.
mix_pool_bytes() uses a spin_lock() to protect the pool and there are
other places like write_pool() whhich invoke mix_pool_bytes() without
disabling preemption.
credit_entropy_bits() is invoked from other places like
add_hwgenerator_randomness() without disabling preemption.
Before commit 95b709b6be49 ("random: drop trickle mode") the function
used __this_cpu_inc_return() which would require disabled preemption.
The preempt_disable() section was added in commit 43d5d3018c37 ("[PATCH]
random driver preempt robustness", history tree). It was claimed that
the code relied on "vt_ioctl() being called under BKL".
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[bigeasy: enhance the commit message]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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