random: remove preempt disabled region
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 14:51:50 +0000 (10:51 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 25 Jun 2022 09:46:25 +0000 (11:46 +0200)
commit6169849980907beb19311829b6753307911f8309
tree0a2f05bc252a32192bd9e1a7842a6e4dff28c6c7
parent923eb78099e022db51884ef80bb589a21a30dd9e
random: remove preempt disabled region

commit b34fbaa9289328c7aec67d2b8b8b7d02bc61c67d upstream.

No need to keep preemption disabled across the whole function.

mix_pool_bytes() uses a spin_lock() to protect the pool and there are
other places like write_pool() whhich invoke mix_pool_bytes() without
disabling preemption.
credit_entropy_bits() is invoked from other places like
add_hwgenerator_randomness() without disabling preemption.

Before commit 95b709b6be49 ("random: drop trickle mode") the function
used __this_cpu_inc_return() which would require disabled preemption.
The preempt_disable() section was added in commit 43d5d3018c37 ("[PATCH]
random driver preempt robustness", history tree).  It was claimed that
the code relied on "vt_ioctl() being called under BKL".

Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[bigeasy: enhance the commit message]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/char/random.c