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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-05-14 14:43:40 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-05-14 14:43:40 +0200
commit9cba26e66d09bf394ae5a739627a1dc8b7cae6f4 (patch)
treef03743d576a0c7826b9921ad47e70370ebe80a22 /drivers/char/random.c
parentec83db0f78cd44c3b586ec1c3a348d1a8a389797 (diff)
parent73eff9f56e15598c8399c0b86899fd889b97f085 (diff)
Merge branch 'perf/uprobes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/uprobes
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/random.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 54ca8b23cde..4ec04a75473 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1260,10 +1260,15 @@ static int proc_do_uuid(ctl_table *table, int write,
uuid = table->data;
if (!uuid) {
uuid = tmp_uuid;
- uuid[8] = 0;
- }
- if (uuid[8] == 0)
generate_random_uuid(uuid);
+ } else {
+ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(bootid_spinlock);
+
+ spin_lock(&bootid_spinlock);
+ if (!uuid[8])
+ generate_random_uuid(uuid);
+ spin_unlock(&bootid_spinlock);
+ }
sprintf(buf, "%pU", uuid);