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authorJoel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>2020-08-10 07:07:46 +0300
committerJoel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>2020-08-10 07:07:49 +0300
commit4789fd48a313d36fe6b8fc1da5e0788f5ea074cb (patch)
tree2c8c27b52f0e38abb7416ce81b04c3b85511b694 /kernel/time/timer.c
parent8a9b346382056b52cd7ff141ae9f15a0fcfeb13d (diff)
parentd9939285fc818425ae92bd99f8c97b6b9ef3bb88 (diff)
downloadlinux-dev-5.4.tar.xz
Merge tag 'v5.4.57' into dev-5.4dev-5.4
This is the 5.4.57 stable release Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
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diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index 1e9b81a930c0..a3ae244b1bcd 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
#include <linux/sched/debug.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/compat.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
@@ -1742,6 +1743,13 @@ void update_process_times(int user_tick)
scheduler_tick();
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS))
run_posix_cpu_timers();
+
+ /* The current CPU might make use of net randoms without receiving IRQs
+ * to renew them often enough. Let's update the net_rand_state from a
+ * non-constant value that's not affine to the number of calls to make
+ * sure it's updated when there's some activity (we don't care in idle).
+ */
+ this_cpu_add(net_rand_state.s1, rol32(jiffies, 24) + user_tick);
}
/**