[PATCH v1 2/5] treewide: use get_random_{u8,u16}() when possible
Jason A. Donenfeld
Jason at zx2c4.com
Thu Oct 6 23:28:26 AEDT 2022
On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 09:38:02PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > diff --git a/lib/test_vmalloc.c b/lib/test_vmalloc.c
> > index 56ffaa8dd3f6..0131ed2cd1bd 100644
> > --- a/lib/test_vmalloc.c
> > +++ b/lib/test_vmalloc.c
> > @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static int random_size_align_alloc_test(void)
> > int i;
> >
> > for (i = 0; i < test_loop_count; i++) {
> > - rnd = prandom_u32();
> > + rnd = get_random_u8();
> >
> > /*
> > * Maximum 1024 pages, if PAGE_SIZE is 4096.
>
> This wasn't obvious either, but it looks like it's because it never
> consumes more than u8?
Right. The only uses of that are %23 and %10 later on down.
Jason
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