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authorDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>2014-01-22 02:29:39 +0100
committerMister Oyster <oysterized@gmail.com>2017-04-11 10:57:24 +0200
commit7802f37376788fc8fda27b716889acb243e25daf (patch)
tree5f539d4fec40915d6be63deda0d897da2a5d2bab
parentec5cbbc97e67e34343508179d56058309baabbf9 (diff)
random32: add prandom_u32_max and convert open coded users
Many functions have open coded a function that returns a random number in range [0,N-1]. Under the assumption that we have a PRNG such as taus113 with being well distributed in [0, ~0U] space, we can implement such a function as uword t = (n*m')>>32, where m' is a random number obtained from PRNG, n the right open interval border and t our resulting random number, with n,m',t in u32 universe. Lets go with Joe and simply call it prandom_u32_max(), although technically we have an right open interval endpoint, but that we have documented. Other users can further be migrated to the new prandom_u32_max() function later on; for now, we need to make sure to migrate reciprocal_divide() users for the reciprocal_divide() follow-up fixup since their function signatures are going to change. Joint work with Hannes Frederic Sowa. Cc: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@darkjames.pl> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Conflicts: net/packet/af_packet.c
-rw-r--r--net/packet/af_packet.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index c200b1d59..1bd9128a8 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -1173,6 +1173,13 @@ static unsigned int fanout_demux_cpu(struct packet_fanout *f,
return smp_processor_id() % num;
}
+static unsigned int fanout_demux_rnd(struct packet_fanout *f,
+ struct sk_buff *skb,
+ unsigned int num)
+{
+ return prandom_u32_max(num);
+}
+
static unsigned int fanout_demux_rollover(struct packet_fanout *f,
struct sk_buff *skb,
unsigned int idx, unsigned int skip,