From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:03:01 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [NET]: Fix potential stack overflow in net/core/utils.c
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.18-rc5~76^2~15
X-Git-Url: http://www.pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=855751125093f758871b70da2951d8b92b6368cc;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

[NET]: Fix potential stack overflow in net/core/utils.c

On High end systems (1024 or so cpus) this can potentially cause stack
overflow.  Fix the stack usage.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/core/utils.c b/net/core/utils.c
index 4f96f389243..e31c90e0559 100644
--- a/net/core/utils.c
+++ b/net/core/utils.c
@@ -130,12 +130,13 @@ void __init net_random_init(void)
 static int net_random_reseed(void)
 {
 	int i;
-	unsigned long seed[NR_CPUS];
+	unsigned long seed;
 
-	get_random_bytes(seed, sizeof(seed));
 	for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
 		struct nrnd_state *state = &per_cpu(net_rand_state,i);
-		__net_srandom(state, seed[i]);
+
+		get_random_bytes(&seed, sizeof(seed));
+		__net_srandom(state, seed);
 	}
 	return 0;
 }