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    random: simplify API for random address requests · 99fdafde
    Jason Cooper authored
    To date, all callers of randomize_range() have set the length to 0, and
    check for a zero return value.  For the current callers, the only way to
    get zero returned is if end <= start.  Since they are all adding a
    constant to the start address, this is unnecessary.
    
    We can remove a bunch of needless checks by simplifying the API to do just
    what everyone wants, return an address between [start, start + range).
    
    While we're here, s/get_random_int/get_random_long/.  No current call site
    is adversely affected by get_random_int(), since all current range
    requests are < UINT_MAX.  However, we should match caller expectations to
    avoid coming up short (ha!) in the future.
    
    All current callers to randomize_range() chose to use the start address if
    randomize_range() failed.  Therefore, we simplify things by just returning
    the start address on error.
    
    randomize_range() will be removed once all callers have been converted
    over to randomize_addr().
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803233913.32511-2-jason@lakedaemon.net
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
    Acked-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Cc: "Roberts, William C" <william.c.roberts@intel.com>
    Cc: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
    Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com>
    Cc: Jeffrey Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
    Cc: Daniel Cashman <dcashman@android.com>
    Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
    Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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