linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] random: make credit_entropy

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Message-ID: <Yf4lZU7mAArZ6xCi@owl.dominikbrodowski.net>
Date:   Sat, 5 Feb 2022 08:21:09 +0100
From:   Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@...neltoast.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] random: make credit_entropy_bits() always safe

Am Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 02:53:25PM +0100 schrieb Jason A. Donenfeld:
> This is called from various hwgenerator drivers, so rather than having
> one "safe" version for userspace and one "unsafe" version for the
> kernel, just make everything safe; the checks are cheap and sensible to
> have anyway.
> 
> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
> Reported-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@...neltoast.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com>

	Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>

Thanks,
	Dominik