linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] DRBG: fix failure of generating multiple of 2**16 bytes

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Message-ID: <20140801144100.GG15005@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 1 Aug 2014 22:41:00 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DRBG: fix failure of generating multiple of 2**16 bytes

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:47:33PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> The function drbg_generate_long slices the request into 2**16 byte
> or smaller chunks. However, the loop, however invokes the random number
> generation function with zero bytes when the request size is a multiple
> of 2**16 bytes. The fix prevents zero bytes requests.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>

Patch applied.
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