linux/drivers/char
Jason A. Donenfeld b0c3e796f2 random: make random_get_entropy() return an unsigned long
Some implementations were returning type `unsigned long`, while others
that fell back to get_cycles() were implicitly returning a `cycles_t` or
an untyped constant int literal. That makes for weird and confusing
code, and basically all code in the kernel already handled it like it
was an `unsigned long`. I recently tried to handle it as the largest
type it could be, a `cycles_t`, but doing so doesn't really help with
much.

Instead let's just make random_get_entropy() return an unsigned long all
the time. This also matches the commonly used `arch_get_random_long()`
function, so now RDRAND and RDTSC return the same sized integer, which
means one can fallback to the other more gracefully.

Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
2022-04-13 13:58:57 +02:00
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agp dma-mapping updates for Linux 5.18 2022-03-29 08:50:14 -07:00
hw_random ARM driver updates for 5.18 2022-03-23 18:23:13 -07:00
ipmi ipmi: initialize len variable 2022-03-20 12:37:15 -05:00
mwave char/mwave: Adjust io port register size 2021-12-03 14:27:06 +01:00
pcmcia cm4000_cs: Use struct_group() to zero struct cm4000_dev region 2021-09-25 08:20:49 -07:00
tpm xen: branch for v5.18-rc1 2022-03-28 14:32:39 -07:00
xilinx_hwicap xilinx_hwicap: cleanup comments 2022-02-25 12:08:57 +01:00
xillybus char: xillybus: fix msg_ep UAF in xillyusb_probe() 2021-10-19 09:40:18 +02:00
adi.c
apm-emulation.c
applicom.c applicom: unneed to initialise statics to 0 2021-12-21 10:14:08 +01:00
applicom.h
bsr.c powerpc/BSR: Make use of the helper macro LIST_HEAD() 2022-02-25 12:10:15 +01:00
ds1620.c
dsp56k.c
dtlk.c
hangcheck-timer.c
hpet.c hpet: remove unused writeq/readq function definitions 2022-02-04 16:45:39 +01:00
Kconfig random: treat bootloader trust toggle the same way as cpu trust toggle 2022-03-25 08:49:40 -06:00
lp.c char: lp: remove redundant space around (inside) parenthesized expressions 2021-03-24 08:26:32 +01:00
Makefile remove the raw driver 2021-06-04 15:35:03 +02:00
mem.c Revert "random: block in /dev/urandom" 2022-03-22 09:17:20 -07:00
misc.c char: misc: increase DYNAMIC_MINORS value 2020-11-03 09:52:04 +01:00
mspec.c char: mspec: Use kvzalloc() in mspec_mmap() 2020-08-28 12:10:04 +02:00
nsc_gpio.c
nvram.c treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword 2020-08-23 17:36:59 -05:00
nwbutton.c
nwbutton.h misc: cleanup minor number definitions in c file into miscdevice.h 2020-03-18 12:27:03 +01:00
nwflash.c misc: move FLASH_MINOR into miscdevice.h and fix conflicts 2020-03-18 12:27:04 +01:00
pc8736x_gpio.c
powernv-op-panel.c powerpc/powernv: Fix fall-through warning for Clang 2021-07-13 19:21:41 -05:00
ppdev.c ppdev: Distribute switch variables for initialization 2020-02-23 20:28:12 +01:00
ps3flash.c powerpc/ps3: make system bus's remove and shutdown callbacks return void 2020-12-04 01:01:22 +11:00
random.c random: make random_get_entropy() return an unsigned long 2022-04-13 13:58:57 +02:00
scx200_gpio.c
sonypi.c
tb0219.c
tlclk.c drivers: char: tlclk.c: Avoid data race between init and interrupt handler 2020-04-23 16:55:24 +02:00
toshiba.c module: remove never implemented MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE 2021-03-17 13:16:18 -07:00
ttyprintk.c tty: drop put_tty_driver 2021-07-27 12:17:21 +02:00
uv_mmtimer.c
virtio_console.c Char/Misc and other driver updates for 5.18-rc1 2022-03-28 12:27:35 -07:00