netdev - Re: [PATCH net] bpf: rather use get_random

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Date:	Wed, 18 May 2016 14:18:31 -0700
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bpf: rather use get_random_int for randomizations

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 07:17:48AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 15:28 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> 
> > I don't consider this a big thing, I just mentioned that we probably
> > shouldn't use prandom_u32 if the value somehow could leak to user space
> > and should be used for security.
> 
> Yes, I was mostly trying to understand if you had real security issues
> there or some general concerns ;)

agree with Eric. Frankly I wouldn't do it, but since it's a trivial
patch and if it makes security folks less worried then why not.
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>