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Revision 4f988f152ee087831ea5c1c77cda4454cacc052c authored by Linus Torvalds on 04 May 2012, 22:13:54 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 04 May 2012, 22:13:54 UTC 
seqlock: add 'raw_seqcount_begin()' function
 
The normal read_seqcount_begin() function will wait for any current
writers to exit their critical region by looping until the sequence
count is even.

That "wait for sequence count to stabilize" is the right thing to do if
the read-locker will just retry the whole operation on contention: no
point in doing a potentially expensive reader sequence if we know at the
beginning that we'll just end up re-doing it all.

HOWEVER.  Some users don't actually retry the operation, but instead
will abort and do the operation with proper locking.  So the sequence
count case may be the optimistic quick case, but in the presense of
writers you may want to do full locking in order to guarantee forward
progress.  The prime example of this would be the RCU name lookup.

And in that case, you may well be better off without the "retry early",
and are in a rush to instead get to the failure handling.  Thus this
"raw" interface that just returns the sequence number without testing it
- it just forces the low bit to zero so that read_seqcount_retry() will
always fail such a "active concurrent writer" scenario.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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rng.c 
/*
 * Cryptographic API.
 *
 * RNG operations.
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2008 Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
 * Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
 * any later version.
 *
 */

#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <crypto/internal/rng.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/cryptouser.h>
#include <net/netlink.h>

static DEFINE_MUTEX(crypto_default_rng_lock);
struct crypto_rng *crypto_default_rng;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crypto_default_rng);
static int crypto_default_rng_refcnt;

static int rngapi_reset(struct crypto_rng *tfm, u8 *seed, unsigned int slen)
{
	u8 *buf = NULL;
	int err;

	if (!seed && slen) {
		buf = kmalloc(slen, GFP_KERNEL);
		if (!buf)
			return -ENOMEM;

		get_random_bytes(buf, slen);
		seed = buf;
	}

	err = crypto_rng_alg(tfm)->rng_reset(tfm, seed, slen);

	kfree(buf);
	return err;
}

static int crypto_init_rng_ops(struct crypto_tfm *tfm, u32 type, u32 mask)
{
	struct rng_alg *alg = &tfm->__crt_alg->cra_rng;
	struct rng_tfm *ops = &tfm->crt_rng;

	ops->rng_gen_random = alg->rng_make_random;
	ops->rng_reset = rngapi_reset;

	return 0;
}

#ifdef CONFIG_NET
static int crypto_rng_report(struct sk_buff *skb, struct crypto_alg *alg)
{
	struct crypto_report_rng rrng;

	snprintf(rrng.type, CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME, "%s", "rng");

	rrng.seedsize = alg->cra_rng.seedsize;

	NLA_PUT(skb, CRYPTOCFGA_REPORT_RNG,
		sizeof(struct crypto_report_rng), &rrng);

	return 0;

nla_put_failure:
	return -EMSGSIZE;
}
#else
static int crypto_rng_report(struct sk_buff *skb, struct crypto_alg *alg)
{
	return -ENOSYS;
}
#endif

static void crypto_rng_show(struct seq_file *m, struct crypto_alg *alg)
	__attribute__ ((unused));
static void crypto_rng_show(struct seq_file *m, struct crypto_alg *alg)
{
	seq_printf(m, "type         : rng\n");
	seq_printf(m, "seedsize     : %u\n", alg->cra_rng.seedsize);
}

static unsigned int crypto_rng_ctxsize(struct crypto_alg *alg, u32 type,
				       u32 mask)
{
	return alg->cra_ctxsize;
}

const struct crypto_type crypto_rng_type = {
	.ctxsize = crypto_rng_ctxsize,
	.init = crypto_init_rng_ops,
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
	.show = crypto_rng_show,
#endif
	.report = crypto_rng_report,
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crypto_rng_type);

int crypto_get_default_rng(void)
{
	struct crypto_rng *rng;
	int err;

	mutex_lock(&crypto_default_rng_lock);
	if (!crypto_default_rng) {
		rng = crypto_alloc_rng("stdrng", 0, 0);
		err = PTR_ERR(rng);
		if (IS_ERR(rng))
			goto unlock;

		err = crypto_rng_reset(rng, NULL, crypto_rng_seedsize(rng));
		if (err) {
			crypto_free_rng(rng);
			goto unlock;
		}

		crypto_default_rng = rng;
	}

	crypto_default_rng_refcnt++;
	err = 0;

unlock:
	mutex_unlock(&crypto_default_rng_lock);

	return err;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crypto_get_default_rng);

void crypto_put_default_rng(void)
{
	mutex_lock(&crypto_default_rng_lock);
	if (!--crypto_default_rng_refcnt) {
		crypto_free_rng(crypto_default_rng);
		crypto_default_rng = NULL;
	}
	mutex_unlock(&crypto_default_rng_lock);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crypto_put_default_rng);

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Random Number Generator");
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