linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] random: Blocking API for accessing nonblocking

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Date:	Wed, 20 May 2015 08:13:19 +0200
From:	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, pebolle@...cali.nl,
	andreas.steffen@...ongswan.org, sandyinchina@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] random: Blocking API for accessing nonblocking_pool

Am Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2015, 06:55:33 schrieb Herbert Xu:

Hi Herbert,
>
>You still need to handle the case where wait_event_interruptible
>returns an error.  Otherwise this looks fine.

Thank you. I would suggest to add a while loop around the call that sets up 
the wait if it terminated with ERESTARTSYS. This way we can maintain a void 
function that is almost identical to the get_random_bytes function.


Ciao
Stephan
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