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Commit 192d4c6c authored by Jason A. Donenfeld's avatar Jason A. Donenfeld Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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random: unify cycles_t and jiffies usage and types

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 upstream.

random_get_entropy() returns a cycles_t, not an unsigned long, which is
sometimes 64 bits on various 32-bit platforms, including x86.
Conversely, jiffies is always unsigned long. This commit fixes things to
use cycles_t for fields that use random_get_entropy(), named "cycles",
and unsigned long for fields that use jiffies, named "now". It's also
good to mix in a cycles_t and a jiffies in the same way for both
add_device_randomness and add_timer_randomness, rather than using xor in
one case. Finally, we unify the order of these volatile reads, always
reading the more precise cycles counter, and then jiffies, so that the
cycle counter is as close to the event as possible.

Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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