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Herbert Xu committed b9fbe709de4
netlink: Use random autobind rover Currently we use a global rover to select a port ID that is unique. This used to work consistently when it was protected with a global lock. However as we're now lockless, the global rover can exhibit pathological behaviour should multiple threads all stomp on it at the same time. Granted this will eventually resolve itself but the process is suboptimal. This patch replaces the global rover with a pseudorandom starting point to avoid this issue. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>