From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Jason@zx2c4.com
commit dd7aa36e535797926d8eb311da7151919130139d upstream.
The comment about get_random_{u32,u64}() not invoking reseeding got added in an unrelated commit, that then was recently reverted by 0313bc278dac ("Revert "random: block in /dev/urandom""). So this adds that little comment snippet back, and improves the wording a bit too.
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski linux@dominikbrodowski.net Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/char/random.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -224,9 +224,10 @@ static void _warn_unseeded_randomness(co * * These interfaces will return the requested number of random bytes * into the given buffer or as a return value. This is equivalent to - * a read from /dev/urandom. The integer family of functions may be - * higher performance for one-off random integers, because they do a - * bit of buffering. + * a read from /dev/urandom. The u32, u64, int, and long family of + * functions may be higher performance for one-off random integers, + * because they do a bit of buffering and do not invoke reseeding + * until the buffer is emptied. * *********************************************************************/