Commit fade5d54 authored by Jeff Dike's avatar Jeff Dike Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: don't roll my own random MAC generator

Use the existing random_ether_addr() instead of cooking up my own
version.  Pointed out by Dave Hollis and Jason Lunz.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 3b89af76
...@@ -310,9 +310,7 @@ static void setup_etheraddr(char *str, unsigned char *addr) ...@@ -310,9 +310,7 @@ static void setup_etheraddr(char *str, unsigned char *addr)
return; return;
random: random:
addr[0] = 0xfe; random_ether_addr(addr)
addr[1] = 0xfd;
random_mac(addr);
} }
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(devices_lock); static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(devices_lock);
......
...@@ -259,32 +259,3 @@ char *split_if_spec(char *str, ...) ...@@ -259,32 +259,3 @@ char *split_if_spec(char *str, ...)
va_end(ap); va_end(ap);
return str; return str;
} }
void random_mac(unsigned char *addr)
{
struct timeval tv;
long n;
unsigned int seed;
gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
/* Assume that 20 bits of microseconds and 12 bits of the pid are
* reasonably unpredictable.
*/
seed = tv.tv_usec | (os_getpid() << 20);
srandom(seed);
/* Don't care about endianness here - switching endianness
* just rearranges what are hopefully random numbers.
*
* Assume that RAND_MAX > 65536, so random is called twice and
* we use 16 bits of the result.
*/
n = random();
addr[2] = (n >> 8) & 255;
addr[3] = n % 255;
n = random();
addr[4] = (n >> 8) & 255;
addr[5] = n % 255;
}
...@@ -50,6 +50,4 @@ extern char *split_if_spec(char *str, ...); ...@@ -50,6 +50,4 @@ extern char *split_if_spec(char *str, ...);
extern int dev_netmask(void *d, void *m); extern int dev_netmask(void *d, void *m);
extern void random_mac(unsigned char *addr);
#endif #endif
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