linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix typo/thinko in get_random

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Date:	Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:41:15 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
cc:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix typo/thinko in get_random_bytes()



On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> On 11/16/2011 10:50 AM, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > If there is an architecture-specific random number generator we use
> > it to acquire randomness one "long" at a time. We should put these
> > random words into consecutive words in the result buffer - not just
> > overwrite the first word again and again.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> 
> Ouch.  Good catch.  This, I guess, is the downside of doing this only on
> the kernel paths... made this kind of errors harder to catch.
> 
> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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