random: replace custom notifier chain with standard one
authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Tue, 1 Mar 2022 19:03:49 +0000 (20:03 +0100)
committerJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Sun, 13 Mar 2022 01:00:56 +0000 (18:00 -0700)
commit5acd35487dc911541672b3ffc322851769c32a56
treeea7d9e993383b44e483fcd44fc85df78222f8af8
parenta4107d34f960df99ca07fa8eb022425a804f59f3
random: replace custom notifier chain with standard one

We previously rolled our own randomness readiness notifier, which only
has two users in the whole kernel. Replace this with a more standard
atomic notifier block that serves the same purpose with less code. Also
unexport the symbols, because no modules use it, only unconditional
builtins. The only drawback is that it's possible for a notification
handler returning the "stop" code to prevent further processing, but
given that there are only two users, and that we're unexporting this
anyway, that doesn't seem like a significant drawback for the
simplification we receive here.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
drivers/char/random.c
include/linux/random.h
lib/random32.c
lib/vsprintf.c