MdeModulePkg: Use monotonic count to initialize the NetLib random seed.

NetRandomInitSeed() function use current time to initialize the random seed,
while in some platform the time service is not accuracy that make the random
seed collision. This patch add the monotonic count to the seed to avoid this.

Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Fu Siyuan <siyuan.fu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiaxin Wu <jiaxin.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ye Ting <ting.ye@intel.com>

git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2@18185 6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/MdeModulePkg/Include/Library/NetLib.h b/MdeModulePkg/Include/Library/NetLib.h
index 7ad8dac446..280c51a01d 100644
--- a/MdeModulePkg/Include/Library/NetLib.h
+++ b/MdeModulePkg/Include/Library/NetLib.h
@@ -530,13 +530,13 @@ NetPutUint32 (
   );

 

 /**

-  Initialize a random seed using current time.

+  Initialize a random seed using current time and monotonic count.

 

-  Get current time first. Then initialize a random seed based on some basic

-  mathematical operations on the hour, day, minute, second, nanosecond and year

-  of the current time.

+  Get current time and monotonic count first. Then initialize a random seed 

+  based on some basic mathematics operation on the hour, day, minute, second,

+  nanosecond and year of the current time and the monotonic count value.

 

-  @return The random seed, initialized with current time.

+  @return The random seed initialized with current time.

 

 **/

 UINT32