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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-08-19 06:10:45 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-08-20 00:50:16 -0700
commit49e8ab03ebcacd8e37660ffec20c0c46721a2800 (patch)
tree78f17093ffdbf4e2cd788033f113888c472f0d7b /net/ipv4/af_inet.c
parent4da79504b2b41410dd56e9268c9ad403aa65e89c (diff)
net: build_ehash_secret() and rt_bind_peer() cleanups
Now cmpxchg() is available on all arches, we can use it in build_ehash_secret() and rt_bind_peer() instead of using spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/af_inet.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/af_inet.c8
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
index 6a1100c25a9..f581f77d109 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
@@ -227,18 +227,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet_ehash_secret);
/*
* inet_ehash_secret must be set exactly once
- * Instead of using a dedicated spinlock, we (ab)use inetsw_lock
*/
void build_ehash_secret(void)
{
u32 rnd;
+
do {
get_random_bytes(&rnd, sizeof(rnd));
} while (rnd == 0);
- spin_lock_bh(&inetsw_lock);
- if (!inet_ehash_secret)
- inet_ehash_secret = rnd;
- spin_unlock_bh(&inetsw_lock);
+
+ cmpxchg(&inet_ehash_secret, 0, rnd);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(build_ehash_secret);