From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Morris Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET : secure sequence number functions can use nsec resolution instead of usec Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:31:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20070328174322.5d806dd0.dada1@cosmosbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: David Miller , Andi Kleen , netdev , Andrew Morton To: Eric Dumazet Return-path: Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.10]:53791 "EHLO mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932725AbXC1Qb7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:31:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070328174322.5d806dd0.dada1@cosmosbay.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Hello David > > We could use the nanosec resolution for various functions defined in drivers/char/random.c > (secure_tcpv6_sequence_number(), secure_tcp_sequence_number(), secure_dccp_sequence_number()) > > I am not sure if it's a netdev related patch or core kernel, so I have CC Andrew. > > Thank you > > [PATCH] NET : random functions can use nsec resolution instead of usec > > In order to get more randomness for secure_tcpv6_sequence_number(), secure_tcp_sequence_number(), secure_dccp_sequence_number() functions, we can use the high resolution time services, providing nanosec resolution. > > I've also done two kmalloc()/kzalloc() conversions. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Looks good to me. Acked-by: James Morris - James -- James Morris