Using get_random_u32 here is faster, more fitting of the use case, and just as cryptographically secure. It also has the benefit of providing better randomness at early boot, which is when many of these structures are assigned. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/neighbour.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c index d274f81fcc2c..9784133b0cdb 100644 --- a/net/core/neighbour.c +++ b/net/core/neighbour.c @@ -312,8 +312,7 @@ static struct neighbour *neigh_alloc(struct neigh_table *tbl, struct net_device static void neigh_get_hash_rnd(u32 *x) { - get_random_bytes(x, sizeof(*x)); - *x |= 1; + *x = get_random_u32() | 1; } static struct neigh_hash_table *neigh_hash_alloc(unsigned int shift) -- 2.13.0