From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8D6E62CA6 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2022 10:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B97FEC433D6; Sat, 22 Oct 2022 10:21:29 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1666434090; bh=4VayhwOVTKVAjPqqz97sF96LRLG+KRcajksLHZHtUxk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=wOx3mp5ksWJtvhNhAOmZUG8X3+HuRkTdY9Nc7h6cWFEIxsW4svt4t9REDVX0plI4T 0jvG2TdFgRx98jdox1K2bPVjxSRKOYymF+6X8vmbsIcB0hIMeoD9P7/9qN6LIAT+Ko fQekZTeUTocY/mdL9wRqCZaeHaw+pLcmNqIWDT+k= Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:21:27 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook , Jakub Kicinski , Russell King , Catalin Marinas , Thomas Bogendoerfer , Heiko Carstens , Herbert Xu , Christoph =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6hmwalder?= , Jani Nikula , Jason Gunthorpe , Sakari Ailus , "Martin K . Petersen" , Theodore Ts'o , Andreas Dilger , Jaegeuk Kim , Richard Weinberger , "Darrick J . Wong" , SeongJae Park , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Michael Ellerman , Helge Deller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] convert tree to get_random_u32_{below,above,between}() Message-ID: References: <20221022014403.3881893-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: loongarch@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20221022014403.3881893-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 09:43:58PM -0400, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Here's the second and final tranche of tree-wide conversions to get > random integer handling a bit tamer. It's predominantly another > Coccinelle-based patchset. > > First we s/prandom_u32_max/get_random_u32_below/, since the former is > just a deprecated alias for the latter. Then in the next commit we can > remove prandom_u32_max all together. I'm quite happy about finally being > able to do that. It means that prandom.h is now only for deterministic and > repeatable randomness, not non-deterministic/cryptographic randomness. > That line is no longer blurred. > > Then, in order to clean up a bunch of inefficient patterns, we introduce > two trivial static inline helper functions built on top of > get_random_u32_below: get_random_u32_above and get_random_u32_between. > These are pretty straight forward to use and understand. Then the final > two patches convert some gnarly open-coded number juggling to use these > helpers. > > I've used Coccinelle for all the treewide patches, so hopefully review > is rather uneventful. I didn't accept all of the changes that Coccinelle > proposed, though, as these tend to be somewhat context-specific. I erred > on the side of just going with the most obvious cases, at least this > time through. And then we can address more complicated cases through > actual maintainer trees. > > Since get_random_u32_below() sits in my random.git tree, these patches > too will flow through that same tree. > > Regards, > Jason Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman