The function rand is very weak and should not be used. Use the DPDK rte_rand() which is seeded from entropy instead.
Coverity issue: 414987 Fixes: b3d326e438f1 ("baseband/fpga_5gnr_fec: add FPGA mutex") Cc: hernan.var...@intel.com Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> --- drivers/baseband/fpga_5gnr_fec/rte_fpga_5gnr_fec.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/baseband/fpga_5gnr_fec/rte_fpga_5gnr_fec.c b/drivers/baseband/fpga_5gnr_fec/rte_fpga_5gnr_fec.c index efc1d3a7725b..9b253cde280d 100644 --- a/drivers/baseband/fpga_5gnr_fec/rte_fpga_5gnr_fec.c +++ b/drivers/baseband/fpga_5gnr_fec/rte_fpga_5gnr_fec.c @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ #include <bus_pci_driver.h> #include <rte_byteorder.h> #include <rte_cycles.h> +#include <rte_random.h> #include <rte_bbdev.h> #include <rte_bbdev_pmd.h> @@ -1990,7 +1991,7 @@ fpga_5gnr_mutex_acquisition(struct fpga_5gnr_queue *q) { uint32_t mutex_ctrl, mutex_read, cnt = 0; /* Assign a unique id for the duration of the DDR access */ - q->ddr_mutex_uuid = rand(); + q->ddr_mutex_uuid = rte_rand(); /* Request and wait for acquisition of the mutex */ mutex_ctrl = (q->ddr_mutex_uuid << 16) + 1; do { -- 2.43.0