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um: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero
authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Fri, 8 Apr 2022 16:03:13 +0000 (18:03 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 25 Jun 2022 09:46:39 +0000 (11:46 +0200)
commitd78483f5fe85ce32d5614e8746ab5b34838122d1
treefb7a53109ed5ecd1708b3b367fc245605be383f5
parent4373bcb96fcc5b961037e06b1e903fc92943ed94
um: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero

commit 9f13fb0cd11ed2327abff69f6501a2c124c88b5a upstream.

In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or
similar, falling back to returning 0 is really not the best we can do.
Instead, at least calling random_get_entropy_fallback() would be
preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even
falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though
random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision or guaranteed to
be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all the time is
better than returning zero all the time.

This is accomplished by just including the asm-generic code like on
other architectures, which means we can get rid of the empty stub
function here.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/um/include/asm/timex.h