There are numerous places in the kernel that would be sped up by having
smaller batches. Currently those callsites do `get_random_u32() & 0xff`
or similar. Since these are pretty spread out, and will require patches
to multiple different trees, let's get ahead of the curve and lay the
foundation for `get_random_u8()` and `get_random_u16()`, so that it's
then possible to start submitting conversion patches leisurely.
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/random.c | 2 ++
include/linux/random.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index f2aa3ab1b458..64ee16ffb8b7 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -506,6 +506,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_random_ ##type);
DEFINE_BATCHED_ENTROPY(u64)
DEFINE_BATCHED_ENTROPY(u32)
+DEFINE_BATCHED_ENTROPY(u16)
+DEFINE_BATCHED_ENTROPY(u8)
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
/*
diff --git a/include/linux/random.h b/include/linux/random.h
index a9e6e16f9774..2c130f8f18e5 100644
--- a/include/linux/random.h
+++ b/include/linux/random.h
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ static inline int unregister_random_vmfork_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb) {
#endif
void get_random_bytes(void *buf, size_t len);
+u8 get_random_u8(void);
+u16 get_random_u16(void);
u32 get_random_u32(void);
u64 get_random_u64(void);
static inline unsigned int get_random_int(void)
--
2.37.3
