[PATCH v6 5/7] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible

Florian Westphal fw at strlen.de
Thu Oct 13 21:16:35 AEDT 2022


Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel at sf-tec.de> wrote:
> Florian, can you comment and maybe fix it?

Can't comment, do not remember -- this was 5 years ago.

> Or you wanted to move the variable before the loop and keep the random state
> between the loops and only reseed when all '1' bits have been consumed.

Probably.  No clue, best to NOT change it to not block Jasons series and
then just simplify this and remove all the useless shifts.


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