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random32: move the pseudo-random 32-bit definitions to prandom.h

The addition of percpu.h to the list of includes in random.h revealed some circular dependencies on arm64 and possibly other platforms. This include was added solely for the pseudo-random definitions, which have nothing to do with the rest of the definitions in this file but are still there for legacy reasons. This patch moves the pseudo-random parts to linux/prandom.h and the percpu.h include with it, which is now guarded by _LINUX_PRANDOM_H and protected against recursive inclusion. A further cleanup step would be to remove this from <linux/random.h> entirely, and make people who use the prandom infrastructure include just the new header file. That's a bit of a churn patch, but grepping for "prandom_" and "next_pseudo_random32" "struct rnd_state" should catch most users. But it turns out that that nice cleanup step is fairly painful, because a _lot_ of code currently seems to depend on the implicit include of <linux/random.h>, which can currently come in a lot of ways, including such fairly core headfers as <linux/net.h>. So the "nice cleanup" part may or may never happen.

Linus Torvalds committed 6 years ago

Commit c0842fb1 parent 2baa85d2 files · +82 −62Browse files

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  1. include/linux/prandom.h +78 −0
  2. include/linux/random.h +4 −62
include/linux/prandom.h+78−0
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
1+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
2+/*
3+ * include/linux/prandom.h
4+ *
5+ * Include file for the fast pseudo-random 32-bit
6+ * generation.
7+ */
8+#ifndef _LINUX_PRANDOM_H
9+#define _LINUX_PRANDOM_H
10+
11+#include <linux/types.h>
12+#include <linux/percpu.h>
13+
14+u32 prandom_u32(void);
15+void prandom_bytes(void *buf, size_t nbytes);
16+void prandom_seed(u32 seed);
17+void prandom_reseed_late(void);
18+
19+struct rnd_state {
20+ __u32 s1, s2, s3, s4;
21+};
22+
23+DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct rnd_state, net_rand_state);
24+
25+u32 prandom_u32_state(struct rnd_state *state);
26+void prandom_bytes_state(struct rnd_state *state, void *buf, size_t nbytes);
27+void prandom_seed_full_state(struct rnd_state __percpu *pcpu_state);
28+
29+#define prandom_init_once(pcpu_state) \
30+ DO_ONCE(prandom_seed_full_state, (pcpu_state))
31+
32+/**
33+ * prandom_u32_max - returns a pseudo-random number in interval [0, ep_ro)
34+ * @ep_ro: right open interval endpoint
35+ *
36+ * Returns a pseudo-random number that is in interval [0, ep_ro). Note
37+ * that the result depends on PRNG being well distributed in [0, ~0U]
38+ * u32 space. Here we use maximally equidistributed combined Tausworthe
39+ * generator, that is, prandom_u32(). This is useful when requesting a
40+ * random index of an array containing ep_ro elements, for example.
41+ *
42+ * Returns: pseudo-random number in interval [0, ep_ro)
43+ */
44+static inline u32 prandom_u32_max(u32 ep_ro)
45+{
46+ return (u32)(((u64) prandom_u32() * ep_ro) >> 32);
47+}
48+
49+/*
50+ * Handle minimum values for seeds
51+ */
52+static inline u32 __seed(u32 x, u32 m)
53+{
54+ return (x < m) ? x + m : x;
55+}
56+
57+/**
58+ * prandom_seed_state - set seed for prandom_u32_state().
59+ * @state: pointer to state structure to receive the seed.
60+ * @seed: arbitrary 64-bit value to use as a seed.
61+ */
62+static inline void prandom_seed_state(struct rnd_state *state, u64 seed)
63+{
64+ u32 i = (seed >> 32) ^ (seed << 10) ^ seed;
65+
66+ state->s1 = __seed(i, 2U);
67+ state->s2 = __seed(i, 8U);
68+ state->s3 = __seed(i, 16U);
69+ state->s4 = __seed(i, 128U);
70+}
71+
72+/* Pseudo random number generator from numerical recipes. */
73+static inline u32 next_pseudo_random32(u32 seed)
74+{
75+ return seed * 1664525 + 1013904223;
76+}
77+
78+#endif
include/linux/random.h+4−62
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ · 10 unmodified lines
1111 #include <linux/kernel.h>
1212 #include <linux/list.h>
1313 #include <linux/once.h>
14−#include <asm/percpu.h>
1514
1615 #include <uapi/linux/random.h>
1716
@@ -111,63 +110,12 @@ declare_get_random_var_wait(long) · 93 unmodified lines
111110
112111 unsigned long randomize_page(unsigned long start, unsigned long range);
113112
114−u32 prandom_u32(void);
115−void prandom_bytes(void *buf, size_t nbytes);
116−void prandom_seed(u32 seed);
117−void prandom_reseed_late(void);
118−
119−struct rnd_state {
120− __u32 s1, s2, s3, s4;
121−};
122−
123−DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct rnd_state, net_rand_state);
124−
125−u32 prandom_u32_state(struct rnd_state *state);
126−void prandom_bytes_state(struct rnd_state *state, void *buf, size_t nbytes);
127−void prandom_seed_full_state(struct rnd_state __percpu *pcpu_state);
128−
129−#define prandom_init_once(pcpu_state) \
130− DO_ONCE(prandom_seed_full_state, (pcpu_state))
131−
132−/**
133− * prandom_u32_max - returns a pseudo-random number in interval [0, ep_ro)
134− * @ep_ro: right open interval endpoint
135− *
136− * Returns a pseudo-random number that is in interval [0, ep_ro). Note
137− * that the result depends on PRNG being well distributed in [0, ~0U]
138− * u32 space. Here we use maximally equidistributed combined Tausworthe
139− * generator, that is, prandom_u32(). This is useful when requesting a
140− * random index of an array containing ep_ro elements, for example.
141− *
142− * Returns: pseudo-random number in interval [0, ep_ro)
143− */
144−static inline u32 prandom_u32_max(u32 ep_ro)
145−{
146− return (u32)(((u64) prandom_u32() * ep_ro) >> 32);
147−}
148−
149113 /*
150− * Handle minimum values for seeds
151− */
152−static inline u32 __seed(u32 x, u32 m)
153−{
154− return (x < m) ? x + m : x;
155−}
156−
157−/**
158− * prandom_seed_state - set seed for prandom_u32_state().
159− * @state: pointer to state structure to receive the seed.
160− * @seed: arbitrary 64-bit value to use as a seed.
114+ * This is designed to be standalone for just prandom
115+ * users, but for now we include it from <linux/random.h>
116+ * for legacy reasons.
161117 */
162−static inline void prandom_seed_state(struct rnd_state *state, u64 seed)
163−{
164− u32 i = (seed >> 32) ^ (seed << 10) ^ seed;
165−
166− state->s1 = __seed(i, 2U);
167− state->s2 = __seed(i, 8U);
168− state->s3 = __seed(i, 16U);
169− state->s4 = __seed(i, 128U);
170−}
118+#include <linux/prandom.h>
171119
172120 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM
173121 # include <asm/archrandom.h>
@@ -210,10 +158,4 @@ static inline bool __init arch_get_random_long_early(unsigned long *v) · 36 unmodified lines
210158 }
211159 #endif
212160
213−/* Pseudo random number generator from numerical recipes. */
214−static inline u32 next_pseudo_random32(u32 seed)
215−{
216− return seed * 1664525 + 1013904223;
217−}
218−
219161 #endif /* _LINUX_RANDOM_H */

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