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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-04-12 19:41:23 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-04-12 19:41:23 -0400
commit011e3c63251be832d23df9f0697626ab7b354d02 (patch)
tree2cad5b58c274c93ae49d9b58fb15d784d4dfd78f /drivers/char/random.c
parentc1412fce7eccae62b4de22494f6ab3ff8a90c0c6 (diff)
parentecca5c3acc0d0933d89abc44e60afb0cc8170e35 (diff)
downloadlinux-011e3c63251be832d23df9f0697626ab7b354d02.tar.bz2
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/random.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 54ca8b23cde3..4ec04a754733 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1260,10 +1260,15 @@ static int proc_do_uuid(ctl_table *table, int write,
uuid = table->data;
if (!uuid) {
uuid = tmp_uuid;
- uuid[8] = 0;
- }
- if (uuid[8] == 0)
generate_random_uuid(uuid);
+ } else {
+ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(bootid_spinlock);
+
+ spin_lock(&bootid_spinlock);
+ if (!uuid[8])
+ generate_random_uuid(uuid);
+ spin_unlock(&bootid_spinlock);
+ }
sprintf(buf, "%pU", uuid);