[PATCH 2/4] random: vDSO: Don't use PAGE_SIZE and PAGE_MASK
Jason A. Donenfeld
Jason at zx2c4.com
Tue Aug 27 18:23:50 AEST 2024
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 10:16:18AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> tglx or yourself suggested to put in a one of the vdso headers instead
> of directly in getrandom.c. This is too fragile because PAGE_SIZE might
> be absent in that header but arrive in getrandom.c through another header.
Oh jeeze, yea.
FYI, _PAGE_SIZE is defined on s390, so that might not be such a good
idea (from the previous version).
> The best would be to have an asm-generic definition of
> PAGE_SIZE and PAGE_MASK that all architectures use, but that's another
> level of work.
Yea that seems far too large of an operation to do here.
> > I'm really not a fan of making the code less idiomatic...
>
> Ok, I have another idea, let's give it a try.
What's the other idea?
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