From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> commit 8b2d953b91e7f60200c24067ab17b77cc7bfd0d4 upstream. This argument is always set to zero, as a result of us not caring about keeping a certain amount reserved in the pool these days. So just remove it and cleanup the function signatures. Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/random.c | 17 +++++++---------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ struct entropy_store { }; static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct entropy_store *r, void *buf, - size_t nbytes, int min, int rsvd); + size_t nbytes, int min); static ssize_t _extract_entropy(struct entropy_store *r, void *buf, size_t nbytes); @@ -988,7 +988,7 @@ static void crng_reseed(struct crng_stat } buf; if (r) { - num = extract_entropy(r, &buf, 32, 16, 0); + num = extract_entropy(r, &buf, 32, 16); if (num == 0) return; } else { @@ -1326,8 +1326,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_disk_randomness); * This function decides how many bytes to actually take from the * given pool, and also debits the entropy count accordingly. */ -static size_t account(struct entropy_store *r, size_t nbytes, int min, - int reserved) +static size_t account(struct entropy_store *r, size_t nbytes, int min) { int entropy_count, orig, have_bytes; size_t ibytes, nfrac; @@ -1341,7 +1340,7 @@ retry: /* never pull more than available */ have_bytes = entropy_count >> (ENTROPY_SHIFT + 3); - if ((have_bytes -= reserved) < 0) + if (have_bytes < 0) have_bytes = 0; ibytes = min_t(size_t, ibytes, have_bytes); if (ibytes < min) @@ -1447,15 +1446,13 @@ static ssize_t _extract_entropy(struct e * returns it in a buffer. * * The min parameter specifies the minimum amount we can pull before - * failing to avoid races that defeat catastrophic reseeding while the - * reserved parameter indicates how much entropy we must leave in the - * pool after each pull to avoid starving other readers. + * failing to avoid races that defeat catastrophic reseeding. */ static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct entropy_store *r, void *buf, - size_t nbytes, int min, int reserved) + size_t nbytes, int min) { trace_extract_entropy(r->name, nbytes, ENTROPY_BITS(r), _RET_IP_); - nbytes = account(r, nbytes, min, reserved); + nbytes = account(r, nbytes, min); return _extract_entropy(r, buf, nbytes); }