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    • David Howells's avatar
      NOMMU: Don't check vm_region::vm_start is page aligned in add_nommu_region() · 8c9ed899
      David Howells authored 
      Don't check vm_region::vm_start is page aligned in add_nommu_region() because
the region may reflect some non-page-aligned mapped file, such as could be
obtained from RomFS XIP.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarGreg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8c9ed899
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md · ee7fee0b
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: remove rd%d links immediately after stopping an array.
  md: remove ability to explicit set an inactive array to 'clean'.
  md: constify VFTs
  md: tidy up status_resync to handle large arrays.
  md: fix some (more) errors with bitmaps on devices larger than 2TB.
  md/raid10: don't clear bitmap during recovery if array will still be degraded.
  md: fix loading of out-of-date bitmap.
      ee7fee0b
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      random: make get_random_int() more random · 8a0a9bd4
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      It's a really simple patch that basically just open-codes the current
"secure_ip_id()" call, but when open-coding it we now use a _static_
hashing area, so that it gets updated every time.

And to make sure somebody can't just start from the same original seed of
all-zeroes, and then do the "half_md4_transform()" over and over until
they get the same sequence as the kernel has, each iteration also mixes in
the same old "current->pid + jiffies" we used - so we should now have a
regular strong pseudo-number generator, but we also have one that doesn't
have a single seed.

Note: the "pid + jiffies" is just meant to be a tiny tiny bit of noise. It
has no real meaning. It could be anything. I just picked the previous
seed, it's just that now we keep the state in between calls and that will
feed into the next result, and that should make all the difference.

I made that hash be a per-cpu data just to avoid cache-line ping-pong:
having multiple CPU's write to the same data would be fine for randomness,
and add yet another layer of chaos to it, but since get_random_int() is
supposed to be a fast interface I did it that way instead. I considered
using "__raw_get_cpu_var()" to avoid any preemption overhead while still
getting the hash be _mostly_ ping-pong free, but in the end good taste won
out.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8a0a9bd4
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