The patch titled Subject: uuid: use prandom_bytes() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was uuid-use-prandom_bytes.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: uuid: use prandom_bytes() Use prandom_bytes() to generate 16 bytes of pseudo-random bytes. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/uuid.c | 8 +------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN lib/uuid.c~uuid-use-prandom_bytes lib/uuid.c --- a/lib/uuid.c~uuid-use-prandom_bytes +++ a/lib/uuid.c @@ -25,13 +25,7 @@ static void __uuid_gen_common(__u8 b[16]) { - int i; - u32 r; - - for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) { - r = random32(); - memcpy(b + i * 4, &r, 4); - } + prandom_bytes(b, 16); /* reversion 0b10 */ b[8] = (b[8] & 0x3F) | 0x80; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch drivers-net-rename-random32-to-prandom_u32.patch drivers-net-rename-random32-to-prandom_u32-fix.patch drivers-net-rename-random32-to-prandom_u32-fix-fix.patch remove-unused-random32-and-srandom32.patch notifier-error-inject-fix-module-names-in-kconfig.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html