random: use lockless method of accessing and updating f->reg_idx
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Wed, 7 Jun 2017 23:01:32 +0000 (19:01 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:50:24 +0000 (19:50 +0200)
commit031987b6beaa02f64aa4428329e34ee3c5b3c76f
treea738f88d7dd437ef4a3e80730a2cd4693b33e70f
parentdb203ab2402dbb9b58b038b8f9097a997f4d8a76
random: use lockless method of accessing and updating f->reg_idx

commit 92e75428ffc90e2a0321062379f883f3671cfebe upstream.

Linus pointed out that there is a much more efficient way of avoiding
the problem that we were trying to address in commit 9dfa7bba35ac0:
"fix race in drivers/char/random.c:get_reg()".

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/char/random.c