[PATCH 01/16] staging: exfat: use prandom_u32() for i_generation

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Nov 8 21:32:39 UTC 2019


Similar to commit 46c9a946d766 ("shmem: use monotonic time for i_generation")
we should not use the deprecated get_seconds() interface for i_generation.

prandom_u32() is the replacement used in other file systems.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
---
 drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c b/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c
index 3b2b0ceb7297..da76c607f589 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/fs_struct.h>
 #include <linux/namei.h>
-
+#include <linux/random.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/nls.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
@@ -3314,7 +3314,7 @@ static int exfat_fill_inode(struct inode *inode, struct file_id_t *fid)
 	inode->i_uid = sbi->options.fs_uid;
 	inode->i_gid = sbi->options.fs_gid;
 	INC_IVERSION(inode);
-	inode->i_generation = get_seconds();
+	inode->i_generation = prandom_u32();
 
 	if (info.Attr & ATTR_SUBDIR) { /* directory */
 		inode->i_generation &= ~1;
-- 
2.20.0



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