From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Subject: [PATCH v4 11/13] net/route: use get_random_int for random counter Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 19:48:02 +0200 Message-ID: <20170606174804.31124-12-Jason@zx2c4.com> References: <20170606174804.31124-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" To: Theodore Ts'o , Linux Crypto Mailing List , LKML , kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, Greg Kroah-Hartman , David Miller , Eric Biggers Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170606174804.31124-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org Using get_random_int 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. Also, semantically, it's not really proper to have been assigning an atomic_t in this way before, even if in practice it works fine. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Cc: David Miller --- net/ipv4/route.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c index 655d9eebe43e..11e001a42094 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/route.c +++ b/net/ipv4/route.c @@ -2936,8 +2936,7 @@ static __net_init int rt_genid_init(struct net *net) { atomic_set(&net->ipv4.rt_genid, 0); atomic_set(&net->fnhe_genid, 0); - get_random_bytes(&net->ipv4.dev_addr_genid, - sizeof(net->ipv4.dev_addr_genid)); + atomic_set(&net->ipv4.dev_addr_genid, get_random_int()); return 0; } -- 2.13.0