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| author | Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> | 2016-05-20 17:01:00 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -0700 |
| commit | 8da4b8c48e7b43cb16d05e1dbb34ad9f73ab7efd (patch) | |
| tree | ac716b243f71c117360535610790d1c6b9164590 /lib | |
| parent | b8b572789cde5118b2cee49d426d48fcf5b30e47 (diff) | |
| download | linux-8da4b8c48e7b43cb16d05e1dbb34ad9f73ab7efd.tar.bz2 | |
lib/uuid.c: move generate_random_uuid() to uuid.c
Let's gather the UUID related functions under one hood.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/uuid.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/uuid.c b/lib/uuid.c index 398821e4dce1..6c81c0b0467e 100644 --- a/lib/uuid.c +++ b/lib/uuid.c @@ -23,6 +23,26 @@ #include <linux/uuid.h> #include <linux/random.h> +/*************************************************************** + * Random UUID interface + * + * Used here for a Boot ID, but can be useful for other kernel + * drivers. + ***************************************************************/ + +/* + * Generate random UUID + */ +void generate_random_uuid(unsigned char uuid[16]) +{ + get_random_bytes(uuid, 16); + /* Set UUID version to 4 --- truly random generation */ + uuid[6] = (uuid[6] & 0x0F) | 0x40; + /* Set the UUID variant to DCE */ + uuid[8] = (uuid[8] & 0x3F) | 0x80; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(generate_random_uuid); + static void __uuid_gen_common(__u8 b[16]) { prandom_bytes(b, 16); |