This is much faster and just as secure. It also has the added benefit of probably returning better randomness at early-boot on systems with architectural RNGs. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/rhashtable.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c index d9e7274a04cd..a1eb7c947f46 100644 --- a/lib/rhashtable.c +++ b/lib/rhashtable.c @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ static struct bucket_table *bucket_table_alloc(struct rhashtable *ht, INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tbl->walkers); - get_random_bytes(&tbl->hash_rnd, sizeof(tbl->hash_rnd)); + tbl->hash_rnd = get_random_u32(); for (i = 0; i < nbuckets; i++) INIT_RHT_NULLS_HEAD(tbl->buckets[i], ht, i); -- 2.13.0
