Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751699AbdFHDAi (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jun 2017 23:00:38 -0400 Received: from imap.thunk.org ([74.207.234.97]:58128 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751203AbdFHDAh (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jun 2017 23:00:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 23:00:33 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: Linux Crypto Mailing List , LKML , kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, Greg Kroah-Hartman , David Miller , Eric Biggers Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 10/13] net/neighbor: use get_random_u32 for 32-bit hash random Message-ID: <20170608030033.ln7f2d6busshtxx7@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , "Jason A. Donenfeld" , Linux Crypto Mailing List , LKML , kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, Greg Kroah-Hartman , David Miller , Eric Biggers References: <20170606174804.31124-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> <20170606174804.31124-11-Jason@zx2c4.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170606174804.31124-11-Jason@zx2c4.com> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on imap.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 472 Lines: 12 On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 07:48:01PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Using get_random_u32 here is faster, more fitting of the use case, and > just as cryptographically secure. It also has the benefit of providing > better randomness at early boot, which is when many of these structures > are assigned. > > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld > Cc: David Miller Applied to the random.git dev branch, thanks. - Ted