random: remove preempt disabled region
commit b34fbaa9289328c7aec67d2b8b8b7d02bc61c67d upstream. 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 43d5d3018c37 ("[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:Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [bigeasy: enhance the commit message] Signed-off-by:
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by:
Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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