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authorJosh Triplett <josht@us.ibm.com>2006-10-04 02:17:12 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-04 07:55:31 -0700
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[PATCH] rcu: Fix sign bug making rcu_random always return the same sequence
rcu_random uses a counter rrs_count to occasionally mix data from get_random_bytes into the state of its pseudorandom generator. However, the rrs_counter gets declared as an unsigned long, and rcu_random checks for --rrs_count < 0, so this code will never mix any real random data into the state, and will thus always return the same sequence of random numbers. Also, change the return value of rcu_random from long to unsigned long, to avoid potential issues caused by the use of the % operator, which can return negative values for negative left operands. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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