diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index d3a857bf..c977f4e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3068,7 +3068,6 @@
 {
 	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
 	struct ext4_li_request *elr;
-	unsigned long rnd;
 
 	elr = kzalloc(sizeof(*elr), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!elr)
@@ -3083,10 +3082,8 @@
 	 * spread the inode table initialization requests
 	 * better.
 	 */
-	get_random_bytes(&rnd, sizeof(rnd));
-	elr->lr_next_sched = jiffies + (unsigned long)rnd %
-			     (EXT4_DEF_LI_MAX_START_DELAY * HZ);
-
+	elr->lr_next_sched = jiffies + (prandom_u32() %
+				(EXT4_DEF_LI_MAX_START_DELAY * HZ));
 	return elr;
 }