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    random: remove preempt disabled region · b34fbaa9
    Ingo Molnar authored
    No need to keep preemption disabled across the whole function.
    
    mix_pool_bytes() uses a spin_lock() to protect the pool and there are
    other places like write_pool() whhich invoke mix_pool_bytes() without
    disabling preemption.
    credit_entropy_bits() is invoked from other places like
    add_hwgenerator_randomness() without disabling preemption.
    
    Before commit 95b709b6 ("random: drop trickle mode") the function
    used __this_cpu_inc_return() which would require disabled preemption.
    The preempt_disable() section was added in commit 43d5d301 ("[PATCH]
    random driver preempt robustness", history tree).  It was claimed that
    the code relied on "vt_ioctl() being called under BKL".
    
    Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    [bigeasy: enhance the commit message]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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