[PATCH v6 5/7] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
Jason A. Donenfeld
Jason at zx2c4.com
Thu Oct 13 09:21:18 PDT 2022
On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 01:40:40PM +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2022, 12:16:35 CEST schrieb Florian Westphal:
> > Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel at sf-tec.de> wrote:
> > > Florian, can you comment and maybe fix it?
> >
> > Can't comment, do not remember -- this was 5 years ago.
> >
> > > Or you wanted to move the variable before the loop and keep the random
> > > state between the loops and only reseed when all '1' bits have been
> > > consumed.
> > Probably. No clue, best to NOT change it to not block Jasons series and
> > then just simplify this and remove all the useless shifts.
>
> Sure. Jason, just in case you are going to do a v7 this could move to u8 then.
Indeed I think this is one to send individually to netdev@ once the tree
opens there for 6.2.
Jason
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