Re: [PATCH v4 11/13] net/route: use get_random_int for random counter

2017-06-07 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 07:48:02PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Using get_random_int here is faster, more fitting of the use case, and > just as cryptographically secure. It also has the benefit of providing > better randomness at early boot, which is when many of these structures > are

[PATCH v4 11/13] net/route: use get_random_int for random counter

2017-06-06 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
Using get_random_int here is faster, more fitting of the use case, and just as cryptographically secure. It also has the benefit of providing better randomness at early boot, which is when many of these structures are assigned. Also, semantically, it's not really proper to have been assigning an