[PATCH v6 7/7] prandom: remove unused functions

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason at zx2c4.com
Mon Oct 10 16:06:13 PDT 2022


With no callers left of prandom_u32() and prandom_bytes(), as well as
get_random_int(), remove these deprecated wrappers, in favor of
get_random_u32() and get_random_bytes().

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com>
---
 drivers/char/random.c   | 11 +++++------
 include/linux/prandom.h | 12 ------------
 include/linux/random.h  |  5 -----
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 01acf235f263..2fe28eeb2f38 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(ratelimit_disable, "Disable random ratelimit suppression");
  * Returns whether or not the input pool has been seeded and thus guaranteed
  * to supply cryptographically secure random numbers. This applies to: the
  * /dev/urandom device, the get_random_bytes function, and the get_random_{u8,
- * u16,u32,u64,int,long} family of functions.
+ * u16,u32,u64,long} family of functions.
  *
  * Returns: true if the input pool has been seeded.
  *          false if the input pool has not been seeded.
@@ -161,15 +161,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_for_random_bytes);
  *	u16 get_random_u16()
  *	u32 get_random_u32()
  *	u64 get_random_u64()
- *	unsigned int get_random_int()
  *	unsigned long get_random_long()
  *
  * These interfaces will return the requested number of random bytes
  * into the given buffer or as a return value. This is equivalent to
- * a read from /dev/urandom. The u8, u16, u32, u64, int, and long
- * family of functions may be higher performance for one-off random
- * integers, because they do a bit of buffering and do not invoke
- * reseeding until the buffer is emptied.
+ * a read from /dev/urandom. The u8, u16, u32, u64, long family of
+ * functions may be higher performance for one-off random integers,
+ * because they do a bit of buffering and do not invoke reseeding
+ * until the buffer is emptied.
  *
  *********************************************************************/
 
diff --git a/include/linux/prandom.h b/include/linux/prandom.h
index 78db003bc290..e0a0759dd09c 100644
--- a/include/linux/prandom.h
+++ b/include/linux/prandom.h
@@ -12,18 +12,6 @@
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
 
-/* Deprecated: use get_random_u32 instead. */
-static inline u32 prandom_u32(void)
-{
-	return get_random_u32();
-}
-
-/* Deprecated: use get_random_bytes instead. */
-static inline void prandom_bytes(void *buf, size_t nbytes)
-{
-	return get_random_bytes(buf, nbytes);
-}
-
 struct rnd_state {
 	__u32 s1, s2, s3, s4;
 };
diff --git a/include/linux/random.h b/include/linux/random.h
index 08322f700cdc..147a5e0d0b8e 100644
--- a/include/linux/random.h
+++ b/include/linux/random.h
@@ -42,10 +42,6 @@ u8 get_random_u8(void);
 u16 get_random_u16(void);
 u32 get_random_u32(void);
 u64 get_random_u64(void);
-static inline unsigned int get_random_int(void)
-{
-	return get_random_u32();
-}
 static inline unsigned long get_random_long(void)
 {
 #if BITS_PER_LONG == 64
@@ -100,7 +96,6 @@ declare_get_random_var_wait(u8, u8)
 declare_get_random_var_wait(u16, u16)
 declare_get_random_var_wait(u32, u32)
 declare_get_random_var_wait(u64, u32)
-declare_get_random_var_wait(int, unsigned int)
 declare_get_random_var_wait(long, unsigned long)
 #undef declare_get_random_var
 
-- 
2.37.3




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