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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, thomas@monjalon.net, frode.nordahl@canonical.com,
	mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com, anatoly.burakov@intel.com,
	stable@dpdk.org, "Tyler Retzlaff" <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>,
	"Bruce Richardson" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	"Dmitry Kozlyuk" <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>,
	"Chengwen Feng" <fengchengwen@huawei.com>,
	"Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>,
	"Konstantin Ananyev" <konstantin.ananyev@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] random: defer seeding to EAL init
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 08:35:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241218083502.266cd066@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241217085954.3310414-3-david.marchand@redhat.com>

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 09:59:49 +0100
David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> wrote:

> The RNG is documented as being seeded as part of EAL init.
> 
> Move the initialisation (seeding) helper out of a constructor and
> call it explicitly from rte_eal_init() as it was done before commit
> 3f002f069612 ("eal: replace libc-based random generation with LFSR").
> 
> This also moves the unconditional lcore variable allocation out of a
> constructor.
> 
> While at it, mark local symbol rand_state as static.
> 
> Fixes: 29c39cd3d54d ("random: keep PRNG state in lcore variable")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>
> Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

Probably need to add a check to rte_random() so it crashes
if called before initialization, rather than returning an un-random
number which could be a hidden long term bug.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-18 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20241205175754.1673888-1-david.marchand@redhat.com>
2024-12-05 17:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] " David Marchand
2024-12-06 11:09   ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-12-16  9:38   ` Burakov, Anatoly
2024-12-05 17:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] power: defer lcore variable allocation David Marchand
2024-12-06 11:29   ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-12-12  7:57     ` David Marchand
2024-12-13  6:58       ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-12-16 10:02         ` David Marchand
2024-12-05 17:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] eal/x86: defer power intrinsics " David Marchand
2024-12-06 11:32   ` Mattias Rönnblom
     [not found] ` <20241217085954.3310414-1-david.marchand@redhat.com>
2024-12-17  8:59   ` [PATCH v2 2/5] random: defer seeding to EAL init David Marchand
2024-12-18 16:35     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2024-12-18 17:03       ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-12-17  8:59   ` [PATCH v2 3/5] power: defer lcore variable allocation David Marchand
2024-12-18 11:17     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2024-12-17  8:59   ` [PATCH v2 5/5] eal/x86: defer power intrinsics " David Marchand
2024-12-18 11:17     ` Burakov, Anatoly

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