hwrng: use reference counts on each struct hwrng.
current_rng holds one reference, and we bump it every time we want to do a read from it. This means we only hold the rng_mutex to grab or drop a reference, so accessing /sys/devices/virtual/misc/hw_random/rng_current doesn't block on read of /dev/hwrng. Using a kref is overkill (we're always under the rng_mutex), but a standard pattern. This also solves the problem that the hwrng_fillfn thread was accessing current_rng without a lock, which could change (eg. to NULL) underneath it. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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