From 2a50d805e59ed18265fca44825719f35927af8af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 13:54:30 +0100 Subject: Revert "netfilter: avoid get_random_bytes calls" This reverts commit a42b99a6e329654d376b330de057eff87686d890. Hannes Frederic Sowa reported some problems with this patch, more specifically that prandom_u32() may not be ready at boot time, see: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=138896532403533&w=2 Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso --- net/netfilter/xt_recent.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/netfilter/xt_recent.c') diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_recent.c b/net/netfilter/xt_recent.c index bfdc29f1a04a..1e657cf715c4 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/xt_recent.c +++ b/net/netfilter/xt_recent.c @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ static int recent_mt_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par, size_t sz; if (unlikely(!hash_rnd_inited)) { - hash_rnd = prandom_u32(); + get_random_bytes(&hash_rnd, sizeof(hash_rnd)); hash_rnd_inited = true; } if (info->check_set & ~XT_RECENT_VALID_FLAGS) { -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522