)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "6582c665d6b882dad8329e05749fbcf119f1ab88", "tree": "c40cbd6ed26fb1fea9d63d9244e6ce377d8196fd", "parents": [ "496f2f93b1cc286f5a4f4f9acdc1e5314978683f" ], "author": { "name": "Akinobu Mita", "email": "akinobu.mita@gmail.com", "time": "Mon Dec 17 16:04:25 2012 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Dec 17 17:15:26 2012 -0800" }, "message": "prandom: introduce prandom_bytes() and prandom_bytes_state()\n\nAdd functions to get the requested number of pseudo-random bytes.\n\nThe difference from get_random_bytes() is that it generates pseudo-random\nnumbers by prandom_u32(). It doesn\u0027t consume the entropy pool, and the\nsequence is reproducible if the same rnd_state is used. So it is suitable\nfor generating random bytes for testing.\n\nSigned-off-by: Akinobu Mita \u003cakinobu.mita@gmail.com\u003e\nCc: \"Theodore Ts\u0027o\" \u003ctytso@mit.edu\u003e\nCc: Artem Bityutskiy \u003cdedekind1@gmail.com\u003e\nCc: Adrian Hunter \u003cadrian.hunter@intel.com\u003e\nCc: David Woodhouse \u003cdwmw2@infradead.org\u003e\nCc: Eilon Greenstein \u003ceilong@broadcom.com\u003e\nCc: David Laight \u003cdavid.laight@aculab.com\u003e\nCc: Michel Lespinasse \u003cwalken@google.com\u003e\nCc: Robert Love \u003crobert.w.love@intel.com\u003e\nCc: Valdis Kletnieks \u003cvaldis.kletnieks@vt.edu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "496f2f93b1cc286f5a4f4f9acdc1e5314978683f", "tree": "464fa6bd115ad4e3bedc02a0b0796a9f9e055ccc", "parents": [ "31279b1457f992f24eee8d45ddd647f5fce42cf6" ], "author": { "name": "Akinobu Mita", "email": "akinobu.mita@gmail.com", "time": "Mon Dec 17 16:04:23 2012 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Dec 17 17:15:26 2012 -0800" }, "message": "random32: rename random32 to prandom\n\nThis renames all random32 functions to have \u0027prandom_\u0027 prefix as follows:\n\n void prandom_seed(u32 seed);\t/* rename from srandom32() */\n u32 prandom_u32(void);\t\t/* rename from random32() */\n void prandom_seed_state(struct rnd_state *state, u64 seed);\n \t\t\t\t/* rename from prandom32_seed() */\n u32 prandom_u32_state(struct rnd_state *state);\n \t\t\t\t/* rename from prandom32() */\n\nThe purpose of this renaming is to prevent some kernel developers from\nassuming that prandom32() and random32() might imply that only\nprandom32() was the one using a pseudo-random number generator by\nprandom32\u0027s \"p\", and the result may be a very embarassing security\nexposure. This concern was expressed by Theodore Ts\u0027o.\n\nAnd furthermore, I\u0027m going to introduce new functions for getting the\nrequested number of pseudo-random bytes. If I continue to use both\nprandom32 and random32 prefixes for these functions, the confusion\nis getting worse.\n\nAs a result of this renaming, \"prandom_\" is the common prefix for\npseudo-random number library.\n\nCurrently, srandom32() and random32() are preserved because it is\ndifficult to rename too many users at once.\n\nSigned-off-by: Akinobu Mita \u003cakinobu.mita@gmail.com\u003e\nCc: \"Theodore Ts\u0027o\" \u003ctytso@mit.edu\u003e\nCc: Robert Love \u003crobert.w.love@intel.com\u003e\nCc: Michel Lespinasse \u003cwalken@google.com\u003e\nCc: Valdis Kletnieks \u003cvaldis.kletnieks@vt.edu\u003e\nCc: David Laight \u003cdavid.laight@aculab.com\u003e\nCc: Adrian Hunter \u003cadrian.hunter@intel.com\u003e\nCc: Artem Bityutskiy \u003cdedekind1@gmail.com\u003e\nCc: David Woodhouse \u003cdwmw2@infradead.org\u003e\nCc: Eilon Greenstein \u003ceilong@broadcom.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "8bc3bcc93a2b4e47d5d410146f6546bca6171663", "tree": "101f55a96f751749041c90c32ef1ba89f94dc4d1", "parents": [ "630d9c47274aa89bfa77fe6556d7818bdcb12992" ], "author": { "name": "Paul Gortmaker", "email": "paul.gortmaker@windriver.com", "time": "Wed Nov 16 21:29:17 2011 -0500" }, "committer": { "name": "Paul Gortmaker", "email": "paul.gortmaker@windriver.com", "time": "Wed Mar 07 15:04:04 2012 -0500" }, "message": "lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible\n\nFor files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map\nthem onto including export.h -- or if the file isn\u0027t even\nusing those, then just delete the include. Fix up any implicit\ninclude dependencies that were being masked by module.h along\nthe way.\n\nSigned-off-by: Paul Gortmaker \u003cpaul.gortmaker@windriver.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "f1bbbb6912662b9f6070c5bfc4ca9eb1f06a9d5b", "tree": "c2c130a74be25b0b2dff992e1a195e2728bdaadd", "parents": [ "fd0961ff67727482bb20ca7e8ea97b83e9de2ddb", "7e27d6e778cd87b6f2415515d7127eba53fe5d02" ], "author": { "name": "Jiri Kosina", "email": "jkosina@suse.cz", "time": "Wed Jun 16 18:08:13 2010 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Jiri Kosina", "email": "jkosina@suse.cz", "time": "Wed Jun 16 18:08:13 2010 +0200" }, "message": "Merge branch \u0027master\u0027 into for-next\n" }, { "commit": "421f91d21ad6f799dc7b489bb33cc560ccc56f98", "tree": "aaf9f6385233fdf9277e634603156c89ede7f770", "parents": [ "65155b3708137fabee865dc4da822763c0c41208" ], "author": { "name": "Uwe Kleine-König", "email": "u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de", "time": "Fri Jun 11 12:17:00 2010 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Jiri Kosina", "email": "jkosina@suse.cz", "time": "Wed Jun 16 18:05:05 2010 +0200" }, "message": "fix typos concerning \"initiali[zs]e\"\n\nSigned-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König \u003cu.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Jiri Kosina \u003cjkosina@suse.cz\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "5960164fde9bc2f2a99e751d3393faea316e7e36", "tree": "eb4340c46fd459a9a078a9b994b5e940b68a875e", "parents": [ "0a14a130cac9c6826bc81a089b12ab5cbb2b97fc" ], "author": { "name": "Joe Eykholt", "email": "jeykholt@cisco.com", "time": "Wed May 26 14:44:13 2010 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu May 27 09:12:52 2010 -0700" }, "message": "lib/random32: export pseudo-random number generator for modules\n\nThis patch moves the definition of struct rnd_state and the inline\n__seed() function to linux/random.h. It renames the static __random32()\nfunction to prandom32() and exports it for use in modules.\n\nprandom32() is useful as a privately-seeded pseudo random number generator\nthat can give the same result every time it is initialized.\n\nFor FCoE FC-BB-6 VN2VN mode self-selected unique FC address generation, we\nneed an pseudo-random number generator seeded with the 64-bit world-wide\nport name. A truly random generator or one seeded with randomness won\u0027t\ndo because the same sequence of numbers should be generated each time we\nboot or the link comes up.\n\nA prandom32_seed() inline function is added to the header file. It is\ninlined not for speed, but so the function won\u0027t be expanded in the base\nkernel, but only in the module that uses it.\n\nSigned-off-by: Joe Eykholt \u003cjeykholt@cisco.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Matt Mackall \u003cmpm@selenic.com\u003e\nCc: Theodore Ts\u0027o \u003ctytso@mit.edu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "697f8d0348a652593d195a13dd1067d9df911a82", "tree": "025da07dad72399662f10d87dbf4d711dd55e766", "parents": [ "4adf0af6818f3ea52421dc0bae836cfaf20ef72a" ], "author": { "name": "Stephen Hemminger", "email": "shemminger@vyatta.com", "time": "Wed Jul 30 16:29:19 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@davemloft.net", "time": "Wed Jul 30 16:29:19 2008 -0700" }, "message": "random32: seeding improvement\n\nThe rationale is:\n * use u32 consistently\n * no need to do LCG on values from (better) get_random_bytes\n * use more data from get_random_bytes for secondary seeding\n * don\u0027t reduce state space on srandom32()\n * enforce state variable initialization restrictions\n\nNote: the second paper has a version of random32() with even longer period\nand a version of random64() if needed.\n\nSigned-off-by: Stephen Hemminger \u003cshemminger@vyatta.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "61407f80f72970d52d4339f81c6c3cd03f4ca0f0", "tree": "2063040e6e16d5dcc1024c3aedee23195f38b1ba", "parents": [ "84f59370c519449c70dcc813b050f5cbbf0098e7" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Thu Apr 03 14:07:02 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@davemloft.net", "time": "Thu Apr 03 14:07:02 2008 -0700" }, "message": "[NET]: srandom32 fixes for networking v2\n\n- Let it update the state of all CPUs. The network stack goes\ninto pains to feed the current IP addresses in, but it is not very\neffective if that is only done for some random CPU instead of all.\nSo change it to feed bits into all CPUs. I decided to do that lockless \nbecause well somewhat random results are ok.\n\nv2: Drop rename so that this patch doesn\u0027t depend on x86 maintainers\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "f6a570333e554b48ad589e7137c77c57809eee81", "tree": "68dd6d5c8fe537a19a84a4189202f5cf70925c17", "parents": [ "2b5f6dcce5bf94b9b119e9ed8d537098ec61c3d2" ], "author": { "name": "Al Viro", "email": "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk", "time": "Wed Oct 18 01:47:25 2006 -0400" }, "committer": { "name": "Al Viro", "email": "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk", "time": "Mon Dec 04 02:00:22 2006 -0500" }, "message": "[PATCH] severing module.h-\u003esched.h\n\nSigned-off-by: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "aaa248f6c9c81b2683db7dbb0689cd5ed1c86d88", "tree": "106d9ce5ebac4175b0fb97ff80a92e399fcf2a33", "parents": [ "0187f879ee8d4b914e74ffa3cc5df268311fc2d2" ], "author": { "name": "Stephen Hemminger", "email": "shemminger@osdl.org", "time": "Tue Oct 17 00:09:42 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Oct 17 08:18:43 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] rename net_random to random32\n\nMake net_random() more widely available by calling it random32\n\nakpm: hopefully this will permit the removal of carta_random32. That needs\nconfirmation from Stephane - this code looks somewhat more computationally\nexpensive, and has a different (ie: callee-stateful) interface.\n\n[akpm@osdl.org: lots of build fixes, cleanups]\nSigned-off-by: Stephen Hemminger \u003cshemminger@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\nCc: Stephane Eranian \u003ceranian@hpl.hp.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" } ] }