Commit a7901acc authored by Daniel Borkmann's avatar Daniel Borkmann Committed by Christoph Hellwig

lpfc: do not feed jiffies as random seed from lpfc driver

In prandom we have already reseeding mechanisms that trigger
periodically from a much better entropy source than just
feeding in jiffies through lpfc_mbx_cmpl_fcf_scan_read_fcf_rec()
[what a function name 8-)]. Therefore, just remove this.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJames Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
parent 0d4aec13
......@@ -2147,7 +2147,6 @@ lpfc_mbx_cmpl_fcf_scan_read_fcf_rec(struct lpfc_hba *phba, LPFC_MBOXQ_t *mboxq)
uint16_t fcf_index, next_fcf_index;
struct lpfc_fcf_rec *fcf_rec = NULL;
uint16_t vlan_id;
uint32_t seed;
bool select_new_fcf;
int rc;
......@@ -2384,9 +2383,6 @@ lpfc_mbx_cmpl_fcf_scan_read_fcf_rec(struct lpfc_hba *phba, LPFC_MBOXQ_t *mboxq)
phba->fcf.fcf_flag |= FCF_AVAILABLE;
/* Setup initial running random FCF selection count */
phba->fcf.eligible_fcf_cnt = 1;
/* Seeding the random number generator for random selection */
seed = (uint32_t)(0xFFFFFFFF & jiffies);
prandom_seed(seed);
}
spin_unlock_irq(&phba->hbalock);
goto read_next_fcf;
......
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