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ext4: use prandom_u32() instead of get_random_bytes()

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Many of the uses of get_random_bytes() do not actually need
cryptographically secure random numbers.  Replace those uses with a
call to prandom_u32(), which is faster and which doesn't consume
entropy from the /dev/random driver.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Theodore Ts'o
2013-11-08 00:14:53 -05:00
parent f275411440
commit dd1f723bf5
3 changed files with 4 additions and 7 deletions
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@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ static int find_group_orlov(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *parent,
ext4fs_dirhash(qstr->name, qstr->len, &hinfo);
grp = hinfo.hash;
} else
get_random_bytes(&grp, sizeof(grp));
grp = prandom_u32();
parent_group = (unsigned)grp % ngroups;
for (i = 0; i < ngroups; i++) {
g = (parent_group + i) % ngroups;