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From: Joe Perches <joe-6d6DIl74uiNBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
To: David Laight
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 18:37:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3f527ec95a12135eb40f5f2d156a2954feb7fbfe.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d45bd258e033453b85a137112e7694e1-1XygrNkDbNvwg4NCKwmqgw@public.gmane.org>

On Wed, 2022-10-12 at 21:29 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Joe Perches
> > Sent: 12 October 2022 20:17
> > 
> > On Wed, 2022-10-05 at 23:48 +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > > The prandom_u32() function has been a deprecated inline wrapper around
> > > get_random_u32() for several releases now, and compiles down to the
> > > exact same code. Replace the deprecated wrapper with a direct call to
> > > the real function.
> > []
> > > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
> > []
> > > @@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ static int send_connect(struct c4iw_ep *ep)
> > >  				   &ep->com.remote_addr;
> > >  	int ret;
> > >  	enum chip_type adapter_type = ep->com.dev->rdev.lldi.adapter_type;
> > > -	u32 isn = (prandom_u32() & ~7UL) - 1;
> > > +	u32 isn = (get_random_u32() & ~7UL) - 1;
> > 
> > trivia:
> > 
> > There are somewhat odd size mismatches here.
> > 
> > I had to think a tiny bit if random() returned a value from 0 to 7
> > and was promoted to a 64 bit value then truncated to 32 bit.
> > 
> > Perhaps these would be clearer as ~7U and not ~7UL
> 
> That makes no difference - the compiler will generate the same code.

True, more or less.  It's more a question for the reader.

> The real question is WTF is the code doing?

True.

> The '& ~7u' clears the bottom 3 bits.
> The '- 1' then sets the bottom 3 bits and decrements the
> (random) high bits.

Right.

> So is the same as get_random_u32() | 7.

True, it's effectively the same as the upper 29 bits are random
anyway and the bottom 3 bits are always set.

> But I bet the coder had something else in mind.

Likely.

And it was also likely copy/pasted a few times.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-13  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-05 21:48 [PATCH v1 0/5] treewide cleanup of random integer usage Jason A. Donenfeld via dev
2022-10-05 21:48 ` [PATCH v1 1/5] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible Jason A. Donenfeld via Linux-f2fs-devel
     [not found]   ` <20221005214844.2699-2-Jason-OnJsPKxuuEcAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2022-10-06  4:16     ` Kees Cook
2022-10-06  4:22       ` KP Singh
2022-10-06 12:45       ` Jason A. Donenfeld via dev
2022-10-06 12:55         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-10-06 13:05           ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-10-05 21:48 ` [PATCH v1 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() " Jason A. Donenfeld via Linux-f2fs-devel
2022-10-06  8:43   ` Jan Kara
2022-10-06 12:33     ` [f2fs-dev] " Jason A. Donenfeld via dev
2022-10-06 13:01       ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-10-06 13:07         ` Jason A. Donenfeld via Linux-f2fs-devel
2022-10-06 12:47   ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]     ` <Yz7OdfKZeGkpZSKb-uk2M96/98Pc@public.gmane.org>
2022-10-06 13:05       ` Jason A. Donenfeld via dev
2022-10-06 13:15         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-10-06 13:20         ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-10-12 19:16   ` Joe Perches
     [not found]   ` <20221005214844.2699-4-Jason-OnJsPKxuuEcAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2022-10-12 19:16     ` Joe Perches
     [not found]   ` <f8ad3ba44d28dec1a5f7626b82c5e9c2aeefa729.camel@perches.com>
     [not found]     ` <f8ad3ba44d28dec1a5f7626b82c5e9c2aeefa729.camel-6d6DIl74uiNBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2022-10-12 21:29       ` David Laight
     [not found]         ` <d45bd258e033453b85a137112e7694e1-1XygrNkDbNvwg4NCKwmqgw@public.gmane.org>
2022-10-13  1:37           ` Joe Perches [this message]
2022-10-05 21:48 ` [PATCH v1 4/5] treewide: use get_random_bytes " Jason A. Donenfeld via Linux-f2fs-devel
2022-10-06  4:45   ` Kees Cook
     [not found]   ` <20221005214844.2699-5-Jason-OnJsPKxuuEcAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2022-10-06  4:48     ` Kees Cook
     [not found] ` <20221005214844.2699-1-Jason-OnJsPKxuuEcAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2022-10-05 21:48   ` [PATCH v1 2/5] treewide: use get_random_{u8, u16}() " Jason A. Donenfeld via dev
     [not found]     ` <20221005214844.2699-3-Jason-OnJsPKxuuEcAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2022-10-06  4:38       ` Kees Cook
2022-10-06 12:28         ` Jason A. Donenfeld via dev
2022-10-05 21:48   ` [PATCH v1 5/5] prandom: remove unused functions Jason A. Donenfeld via dev
     [not found]     ` <20221005214844.2699-6-Jason-OnJsPKxuuEcAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2022-10-06  4:39       ` Kees Cook
2022-10-06  4:55   ` [PATCH v1 0/5] treewide cleanup of random integer usage Kees Cook
2022-10-06  5:40     ` Kees Cook
2022-10-06 12:53     ` Jason A. Donenfeld via dev

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