[PATCH 3.18 101/121] random: use lockless method of accessing and updating f->reg_idx

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>

commit 92e75428ffc90e2a0321062379f883f3671cfebe upstream.

Linus pointed out that there is a much more efficient way of avoiding
the problem that we were trying to address in commit 9dfa7bba35ac0:
"fix race in drivers/char/random.c:get_reg()".

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/char/random.c |   12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -863,15 +863,15 @@ static void add_interrupt_bench(cycles_t
 static __u32 get_reg(struct fast_pool *f, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	__u32 *ptr = (__u32 *) regs;
-	unsigned long flags;
+	unsigned int idx;
 
 	if (regs == NULL)
 		return 0;
-	local_irq_save(flags);
-	if (f->reg_idx >= sizeof(struct pt_regs) / sizeof(__u32))
-		f->reg_idx = 0;
-	ptr += f->reg_idx++;
-	local_irq_restore(flags);
+	idx = READ_ONCE(f->reg_idx);
+	if (idx >= sizeof(struct pt_regs) / sizeof(__u32))
+		idx = 0;
+	ptr += idx++;
+	WRITE_ONCE(f->reg_idx, idx);
 	return *ptr;
 }