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authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>2022-10-05 17:50:20 +0200
committerJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>2022-10-12 01:42:58 +0200
commitde492c83cae0af72de370b9404aacda93dafcad5 (patch)
tree5cf1cab5c03c50508900956c7a291cf3e36d4c90 /drivers/char
parenttreewide: use get_random_bytes() when possible (diff)
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prandom: remove unused functions
With no callers left of prandom_u32() and prandom_bytes(), as well as get_random_int(), remove these deprecated wrappers, in favor of get_random_u32() and get_random_bytes(). Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 01acf235f263..2fe28eeb2f38 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(ratelimit_disable, "Disable random ratelimit suppression");
* Returns whether or not the input pool has been seeded and thus guaranteed
* to supply cryptographically secure random numbers. This applies to: the
* /dev/urandom device, the get_random_bytes function, and the get_random_{u8,
- * u16,u32,u64,int,long} family of functions.
+ * u16,u32,u64,long} family of functions.
*
* Returns: true if the input pool has been seeded.
* false if the input pool has not been seeded.
@@ -161,15 +161,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_for_random_bytes);
* u16 get_random_u16()
* u32 get_random_u32()
* u64 get_random_u64()
- * unsigned int get_random_int()
* unsigned long get_random_long()
*
* These interfaces will return the requested number of random bytes
* into the given buffer or as a return value. This is equivalent to
- * a read from /dev/urandom. The u8, u16, u32, u64, int, and long
- * family of functions may be higher performance for one-off random
- * integers, because they do a bit of buffering and do not invoke
- * reseeding until the buffer is emptied.
+ * a read from /dev/urandom. The u8, u16, u32, u64, long family of
+ * functions may be higher performance for one-off random integers,
+ * because they do a bit of buffering and do not invoke reseeding
+ * until the buffer is emptied.
*
*********************************************************************/