From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:01:44 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] treewide cleanup of random integer usage Message-ID: <20221011160144.1c0dc2af@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20221010230613.1076905-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> References: <20221010230613.1076905-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-um" Errors-To: linux-um-bounces+geert=linux-m68k.org@lists.infradead.org To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev, Andreas Noever , Andrew Morton , Andy Shevchenko , Borislav Petkov , Catalin Marinas , Christoph =?UTF-8?B?QsO2aG13YWxkZXI=?= , Christoph Hellwig , Christophe Leroy , Daniel Borkmann , Dave Airlie , Dave Hansen , "David S . Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Florian Westphal , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "H . Peter Anvin , Heiko Carstens , Helge Deller" , Herbert Xu , Huacai Chen , Hugh Dickins , "James E . J . Bottomley , Jan Kara , Jason Gunthorpe" , Jens Axboe , Johannes Berg , Jonathan Corbet , Jozsef Kadlecsik , KP Singh , Kees Cook , Marco Elver , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Michael Ellerman , Pablo Neira Ayuso , Paolo Abeni , Peter Zijlstra , Richard Weinberger , Russell King , Theodore Ts'o , Thomas Bogendoerfer , Thomas Gleixner , Thomas Graf , Ulf Hansson , Vignesh Raghavendra , WANG Xuerui , Will Deacon , Yury Norov , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev, netdev@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 17:06:06 -0600 Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > - If you want a secure or an insecure random u64, use get_random_u64(). > - If you want a secure or an insecure random u32, use get_random_u32(). > * The old function prandom_u32() has been deprecated for a while now > and is just a wrapper around get_random_u32(). Same for > get_random_int(). > - If you want a secure or an insecure random u16, use get_random_u16(). > - If you want a secure or an insecure random u8, use get_random_u8(). > - If you want secure or insecure random bytes, use get_random_bytes(). > * The old function prandom_bytes() has been deprecated for a while now > and has long been a wrapper around get_random_bytes(). > - If you want a non-uniform random u32, u16, or u8 bounded by a certain > open interval maximum, use prandom_u32_max(). > * I say "non-uniform", because it doesn't do any rejection sampling or > divisions. Hence, it stays within the prandom_* namespace. Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski _______________________________________________ linux-um mailing list linux-um@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-um