From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 72e5c740f6335e27253b8ff64d23d00337091535 upstream. Avoid the READ_ONCE in commit 4a072c71f49b ("random: silence compiler warnings and fix race") if we can leave the function after arch_get_random_XXX(). Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/random.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -2161,7 +2161,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct batched_ent u64 get_random_u64(void) { u64 ret; - bool use_lock = READ_ONCE(crng_init) < 2; + bool use_lock; unsigned long flags = 0; struct batched_entropy *batch; static void *previous; @@ -2177,6 +2177,7 @@ u64 get_random_u64(void) warn_unseeded_randomness(&previous); + use_lock = READ_ONCE(crng_init) < 2; batch = &get_cpu_var(batched_entropy_u64); if (use_lock) read_lock_irqsave(&batched_entropy_reset_lock, flags); @@ -2196,7 +2197,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct batched_ent u32 get_random_u32(void) { u32 ret; - bool use_lock = READ_ONCE(crng_init) < 2; + bool use_lock; unsigned long flags = 0; struct batched_entropy *batch; static void *previous; @@ -2206,6 +2207,7 @@ u32 get_random_u32(void) warn_unseeded_randomness(&previous); + use_lock = READ_ONCE(crng_init) < 2; batch = &get_cpu_var(batched_entropy_u32); if (use_lock) read_lock_irqsave(&batched_entropy_reset_lock, flags);