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Date:   Sat, 8 Oct 2022 22:18:45 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     "'Jason A. Donenfeld'" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "patches@...ts.linux.dev" <patches@...ts.linux.dev>
CC:     Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Christoph Böhmwalder 
        <christoph.boehmwalder@...bit.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 4/6] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
> Sent: 07 October 2022 19:01
> 
> The prandom_u32() function has been a deprecated inline wrapper around
> get_random_u32() for several releases now, and compiles down to the
> exact same code. Replace the deprecated wrapper with a direct call to
> the real function. The same also applies to get_random_int(), which is
> just a wrapper around get_random_u32().
> 
...
> diff --git a/net/802/garp.c b/net/802/garp.c
> index f6012f8e59f0..c1bb67e25430 100644
> --- a/net/802/garp.c
> +++ b/net/802/garp.c
> @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ static void garp_join_timer_arm(struct garp_applicant *app)
>  {
>  	unsigned long delay;
> 
> -	delay = (u64)msecs_to_jiffies(garp_join_time) * prandom_u32() >> 32;
> +	delay = (u64)msecs_to_jiffies(garp_join_time) * get_random_u32() >> 32;
>  	mod_timer(&app->join_timer, jiffies + delay);
>  }
> 
> diff --git a/net/802/mrp.c b/net/802/mrp.c
> index 35e04cc5390c..3e9fe9f5d9bf 100644
> --- a/net/802/mrp.c
> +++ b/net/802/mrp.c
> @@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ static void mrp_join_timer_arm(struct mrp_applicant *app)
>  {
>  	unsigned long delay;
> 
> -	delay = (u64)msecs_to_jiffies(mrp_join_time) * prandom_u32() >> 32;
> +	delay = (u64)msecs_to_jiffies(mrp_join_time) * get_random_u32() >> 32;
>  	mod_timer(&app->join_timer, jiffies + delay);
>  }
> 

Aren't those:
	delay = prandom_u32_max(msecs_to_jiffies(xxx_join_time));

	David

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