As of the prior commit, the RNG will have incorporated both a cycle
counter value and RDRAND, in addition to various other environmental
noise. Therefore, using get_random_u32() will supply a stronger seed
than simply using random_get_entropy(). N.B.: random_get_entropy()
should be considered an internal API of random.c and not generally
consumed.
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/kfence/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/kfence/core.c b/mm/kfence/core.c
index c252081b11df..239b1b4b094f 100644
--- a/mm/kfence/core.c
+++ b/mm/kfence/core.c
@@ -864,7 +864,7 @@ static void kfence_init_enable(void)
void __init kfence_init(void)
{
- stack_hash_seed = (u32)random_get_entropy();
+ stack_hash_seed = get_random_u32();
/* Setting kfence_sample_interval to 0 on boot disables KFENCE. */
if (!kfence_sample_interval)
--
2.37.3
