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Revision 44e4360fa3384850d65dd36fb4e6e5f2f112709b authored by Mathieu Desnoyers on 12 April 2012, 19:49:12 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 12 April 2012, 20:12:12 UTC 
drivers/char/random.c: fix boot id uniqueness race
 
/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id can be read concurrently by userspace
processes.  If two (or more) user-space processes concurrently read
boot_id when sysctl_bootid is not yet assigned, a race can occur making
boot_id differ between the reads.  Because the whole point of the boot id
is to be unique across a kernel execution, fix this by protecting this
operation with a spinlock.

Given that this operation is not frequently used, hitting the spinlock
on each call should not be an issue.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: 44e4360fa3384850d65dd36fb4e6e5f2f112709b authored by Mathieu Desnoyers on 12 April 2012, 19:49:12 UTC
drivers/char/random.c: fix boot id uniqueness race
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