[PATCH v3 7/7] random: Remove unused randomize_range()
From: Jason Cooper <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-03 23:41:24
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Subsystem:
random number driver, the rest · Maintainers:
"Theodore Ts'o", Jason A. Donenfeld, Linus Torvalds
All call sites for randomize_range have been updated to use the much simpler and more robust randomize_addr. Remove the now unnecessary code. Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <redacted> --- drivers/char/random.c | 19 ------------------- include/linux/random.h | 1 - 2 files changed, 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 61cb434e3bea..46d332dd27a4 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c@@ -1821,25 +1821,6 @@ unsigned long get_random_long(void) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_random_long); -/* - * randomize_range() returns a start address such that - * - * [...... <range> .....] - * start end - * - * a <range> with size "len" starting at the return value is inside in the - * area defined by [start, end], but is otherwise randomized. - */ -unsigned long -randomize_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, unsigned long len) -{ - unsigned long range = end - len - start; - - if (end <= start + len) - return 0; - return PAGE_ALIGN(get_random_int() % range + start); -} - /** * randomize_page - Generate a random, page aligned address * @start: The smallest acceptable address the caller will take.
diff --git a/include/linux/random.h b/include/linux/random.h
index 098fec690d65..9281dbbb7f4a 100644
--- a/include/linux/random.h
+++ b/include/linux/random.h@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ extern const struct file_operations random_fops, urandom_fops; unsigned int get_random_int(void); unsigned long get_random_long(void); -unsigned long randomize_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, unsigned long len); unsigned long randomize_page(unsigned long start, unsigned long range); u32 prandom_u32(void);
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