Commit 804b19ca authored by Eric Biggers's avatar Eric Biggers Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

random: properly align get_random_int_hash

commit b1132dea upstream.

get_random_long() reads from the get_random_int_hash array using an
unsigned long pointer.  For this code to be guaranteed correct on all
architectures, the array must be aligned to an unsigned long boundary.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent f7533e65
......@@ -1714,13 +1714,15 @@ int random_int_secret_init(void)
return 0;
}
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(__u32 [MD5_DIGEST_WORDS], get_random_int_hash)
__aligned(sizeof(unsigned long));
/*
* Get a random word for internal kernel use only. Similar to urandom but
* with the goal of minimal entropy pool depletion. As a result, the random
* value is not cryptographically secure but for several uses the cost of
* depleting entropy is too high
*/
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(__u32 [MD5_DIGEST_WORDS], get_random_int_hash);
unsigned int get_random_int(void)
{
__u32 *hash;
......
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