random: make random_get_entropy() return an unsigned long
Some implementations were returning type `unsigned long`, while others that fell back to get_cycles() were implicitly returning a `cycles_t` or an untyped constant int literal. That makes for weird and confusing code, and basically all code in the kernel already handled it like it was an `unsigned long`. I recently tried to handle it as the largest type it could be, a `cycles_t`, but doing so doesn't really help with much. Instead let's just make random_get_entropy() return an unsigned long all the time. This also matches the commonly used `arch_get_random_long()` function, so now RDRAND and RDTSC return the same sized integer, which means one can fallback to the other more gracefully. Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by:Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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