After this remark was written, commit
d2e7c96af added a use of
arch_get_random_long() inside the get_random_bytes codepath.
The main point stands, but it needs to be reworded.
Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
/*
* This function is the exported kernel interface. It returns some
* number of good random numbers, suitable for key generation, seeding
- * TCP sequence numbers, etc. It does not use the hw random number
- * generator, if available; use get_random_bytes_arch() for that.
+ * TCP sequence numbers, etc. It does not rely on the hardware random
+ * number generator. For random bytes direct from the hardware RNG
+ * (when available), use get_random_bytes_arch().
*/
void get_random_bytes(void *buf, int nbytes)
{