From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>,
Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
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Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
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"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
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Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev,
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Subject: [PATCH v4 2/3] prandom: Add __always_inline version of prandom_u32_state()
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:01:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260119130122.1283821-3-ryan.roberts@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260119130122.1283821-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com>
We will shortly use prandom_u32_state() to implement kstack offset
randomization and some arches need to call it from non-instrumentable
context. So let's implement prandom_u32_state() as an out-of-line
wrapper around a new __always_inline prandom_u32_state_inline(). kstack
offset randomization will use this new version.
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
---
include/linux/prandom.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
lib/random32.c | 8 +-------
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/prandom.h b/include/linux/prandom.h
index ff7dcc3fa105..801188680a29 100644
--- a/include/linux/prandom.h
+++ b/include/linux/prandom.h
@@ -17,6 +17,26 @@ struct rnd_state {
__u32 s1, s2, s3, s4;
};
+/**
+ * prandom_u32_state_inline - seeded pseudo-random number generator.
+ * @state: pointer to state structure holding seeded state.
+ *
+ * This is used for pseudo-randomness with no outside seeding.
+ * For more random results, use get_random_u32().
+ * For use only where the out-of-line version, prandom_u32_state(), cannot be
+ * used (e.g. noinstr code).
+ */
+static __always_inline u32 prandom_u32_state_inline(struct rnd_state *state)
+{
+#define TAUSWORTHE(s, a, b, c, d) ((s & c) << d) ^ (((s << a) ^ s) >> b)
+ state->s1 = TAUSWORTHE(state->s1, 6U, 13U, 4294967294U, 18U);
+ state->s2 = TAUSWORTHE(state->s2, 2U, 27U, 4294967288U, 2U);
+ state->s3 = TAUSWORTHE(state->s3, 13U, 21U, 4294967280U, 7U);
+ state->s4 = TAUSWORTHE(state->s4, 3U, 12U, 4294967168U, 13U);
+
+ return (state->s1 ^ state->s2 ^ state->s3 ^ state->s4);
+}
+
u32 prandom_u32_state(struct rnd_state *state);
void prandom_bytes_state(struct rnd_state *state, void *buf, size_t nbytes);
void prandom_seed_full_state(struct rnd_state __percpu *pcpu_state);
diff --git a/lib/random32.c b/lib/random32.c
index 24e7acd9343f..2a02d82e91bc 100644
--- a/lib/random32.c
+++ b/lib/random32.c
@@ -51,13 +51,7 @@
*/
u32 prandom_u32_state(struct rnd_state *state)
{
-#define TAUSWORTHE(s, a, b, c, d) ((s & c) << d) ^ (((s << a) ^ s) >> b)
- state->s1 = TAUSWORTHE(state->s1, 6U, 13U, 4294967294U, 18U);
- state->s2 = TAUSWORTHE(state->s2, 2U, 27U, 4294967288U, 2U);
- state->s3 = TAUSWORTHE(state->s3, 13U, 21U, 4294967280U, 7U);
- state->s4 = TAUSWORTHE(state->s4, 3U, 12U, 4294967168U, 13U);
-
- return (state->s1 ^ state->s2 ^ state->s3 ^ state->s4);
+ return prandom_u32_state_inline(state);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(prandom_u32_state);
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-19 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-19 13:01 [PATCH v4 0/3] Fix bugs and performance of kstack offset randomisation Ryan Roberts
2026-01-19 13:01 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] randomize_kstack: Maintain kstack_offset per task Ryan Roberts
2026-01-19 16:10 ` Dave Hansen
2026-01-19 16:51 ` Ryan Roberts
2026-01-19 16:53 ` Dave Hansen
2026-01-19 13:01 ` Ryan Roberts [this message]
2026-01-28 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] prandom: Add __always_inline version of prandom_u32_state() Jason A. Donenfeld
2026-01-28 17:33 ` Ryan Roberts
2026-01-28 18:32 ` David Laight
2026-01-30 16:16 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-01-19 13:01 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] randomize_kstack: Unify random source across arches Ryan Roberts
2026-01-20 23:50 ` kernel test robot
2026-01-21 10:20 ` David Laight
2026-01-21 14:48 ` David Laight
2026-01-21 10:52 ` Ryan Roberts
2026-01-21 12:32 ` Mark Rutland
2026-02-18 15:20 ` Ryan Roberts
2026-02-22 21:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-23 9:41 ` David Laight
2026-03-03 14:43 ` Ryan Roberts
2026-01-19 16:00 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] Fix bugs and performance of kstack offset randomisation Dave Hansen
2026-01-19 16:44 ` Kees Cook
2026-01-19 16:51 ` Dave Hansen
2026-01-20 16:32 ` Ryan Roberts
2026-01-20 16:37 ` Dave Hansen
2026-01-20 16:45 ` Ryan Roberts
2026-01-20 18:45 ` David Laight
2026-01-19 16:25 ` Heiko Carstens
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