random: use lockless method of accessing and updating f->reg_idx
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1765010 commit 92e75428 upstream. Linus pointed out that there is a much more efficient way of avoiding the problem that we were trying to address in commit 9dfa7bba: "fix race in drivers/char/random.c:get_reg()". Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
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