[PATCH] rcu: Fix sign bug making rcu_random always return the same sequence

rcu_random uses a counter rrs_count to occasionally mix data from
get_random_bytes into the state of its pseudorandom generator.  However,
the rrs_counter gets declared as an unsigned long, and rcu_random checks
for --rrs_count < 0, so this code will never mix any real random data into
the state, and will thus always return the same sequence of random numbers.

Also, change the return value of rcu_random from long to unsigned long, to
avoid potential issues caused by the use of the % operator, which can
return negative values for negative left operands.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/kernel/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcutorture.c
index 42e7f01e8003af785a335bc9c12f7adab34d9a97..43d6d4f9ef09a21f806edb11e0dfefac8d75a064 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutorture.c
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ rcu_torture_free(struct rcu_torture *p)
 
 struct rcu_random_state {
        unsigned long rrs_state;
-       unsigned long rrs_count;
+       long rrs_count;
 };
 
 #define RCU_RANDOM_MULT 39916801  /* prime */
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ struct rcu_random_state {
  * Crude but fast random-number generator.  Uses a linear congruential
  * generator, with occasional help from get_random_bytes().
  */
-static long
+static unsigned long
 rcu_random(struct rcu_random_state *rrsp)
 {
        long refresh;