In some cases we would like to generate a GUID and export it.
Though it would require either casting to internal kernel types or
an intermediate buffer. Instead we may achieve this by supplying
a pointer to raw buffer and make a complimentary API to existing one
for UUIDs.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/uuid.h | 1 +
lib/uuid.c | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/uuid.h b/include/linux/uuid.h
index 8e4a5000da03..3780460a9a85 100644
--- a/include/linux/uuid.h
+++ b/include/linux/uuid.h
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ static inline bool uuid_is_null(const uuid_t *uuid)
}
void generate_random_uuid(unsigned char uuid[16]);
+void generate_random_guid(unsigned char guid[16]);
extern void guid_gen(guid_t *u);
extern void uuid_gen(uuid_t *u);
diff --git a/lib/uuid.c b/lib/uuid.c
index b6a1edb61d87..562d53977cab 100644
--- a/lib/uuid.c
+++ b/lib/uuid.c
@@ -40,6 +40,16 @@ void generate_random_uuid(unsigned char uuid[16])
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(generate_random_uuid);
+void generate_random_guid(unsigned char guid[16])
+{
+ get_random_bytes(guid, 16);
+ /* Set GUID version to 4 --- truly random generation */
+ guid[7] = (guid[7] & 0x0F) | 0x40;
+ /* Set the GUID variant to DCE */
+ guid[8] = (guid[8] & 0x3F) | 0x80;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(generate_random_guid);
+
static void __uuid_gen_common(__u8 b[16])
{
prandom_bytes(b, 16);
--
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