[RFC PATCH v1 47/50] kernel/bpf/core.c: Use get_random_max32()

From: George Spelvin
Date: Sat Mar 28 2020 - 12:45:11 EST


Smaller, faster, and a smidge more uniform than %.

Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <lkml@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@xxxxxx>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx>
Cc: bpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
kernel/bpf/core.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/core.c b/kernel/bpf/core.c
index af6b738cf435c..61713a7f73d85 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/core.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/core.c
@@ -874,7 +874,7 @@ bpf_jit_binary_alloc(unsigned int proglen, u8 **image_ptr,
hdr->pages = pages;
hole = min_t(unsigned int, size - (proglen + sizeof(*hdr)),
PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(*hdr));
- start = (get_random_int() % hole) & ~(alignment - 1);
+ start = get_random_max32(hole) & ~(alignment - 1);

/* Leave a random number of instructions before BPF code. */
*image_ptr = &hdr->image[start];
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ static int bpf_jit_blind_insn(const struct bpf_insn *from,
bool emit_zext)
{
struct bpf_insn *to = to_buff;
- u32 imm_rnd = get_random_int();
+ u32 imm_rnd = get_random_u32();
s16 off;

BUILD_BUG_ON(BPF_REG_AX + 1 != MAX_BPF_JIT_REG);
--
2.26.0