linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] crypto: algif_rng

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Message-ID: <20150316104958.GC793@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2015 21:49:58 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
Cc:	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, 'LKML' <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] crypto: algif_rng - zeroize buffer with random
 data

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:44:07AM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> Due to the change to RNGs to always return zero in success case, the RNG
> interface must zeroize the buffer with the length provided by the
> caller.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>

Applied.
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