From a5471125eea5513520c9cf0e313bcbb7a0f0a36e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 10:51:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] random: remove preempt disabled region commit b34fbaa9289328c7aec67d2b8b8b7d02bc61c67d upstream. No need to keep preemption disabled across the whole function. mix_pool_bytes() uses a spin_lock() to protect the pool and there are other places like write_pool() whhich invoke mix_pool_bytes() without disabling preemption. credit_entropy_bits() is invoked from other places like add_hwgenerator_randomness() without disabling preemption. Before commit 95b709b6be49 ("random: drop trickle mode") the function used __this_cpu_inc_return() which would require disabled preemption. The preempt_disable() section was added in commit 43d5d3018c37 ("[PATCH] random driver preempt robustness", history tree). It was claimed that the code relied on "vt_ioctl() being called under BKL". Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [bigeasy: enhance the commit message] Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/char/random.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c index b63a7b0b88cd..0ebdd1571e84 100644 --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -1189,8 +1189,6 @@ static void add_timer_randomness(struct timer_rand_state *state, unsigned num) } sample; long delta, delta2, delta3; - preempt_disable(); - sample.jiffies = jiffies; sample.cycles = random_get_entropy(); sample.num = num; @@ -1228,8 +1226,6 @@ static void add_timer_randomness(struct timer_rand_state *state, unsigned num) * and limit entropy entimate to 12 bits. */ credit_entropy_bits(r, min_t(int, fls(delta>>1), 11)); - - preempt_enable(); } void add_input_randomness(unsigned int type, unsigned int code,