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Message-Id: <1214968951.11311.122.camel@calx> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:22:31 -0500 From: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Benoit Boissinot <bboissin@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lloyd@...dombit.net, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug in random32.c: all-zero outputs with probability 1/2^32, other seeding bugs On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 17:34 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 01:19:27 +0200 > Benoit Boissinot <bboissin@...il.com> wrote: > > > [who maintains random32.c ?] > > ah. I think it's ancient net code which was recently hoisted into lib/. > So: not really anybody. > > I've been hopefully cc'ing Matt and Ted in the hope of fooling them > into looking at it. But a netdev cc is appropriate also. I did look at it, and it looks reasonable. So: Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com> Stephen Hemminger is responsible for the original code, I believe. I've been tempted to slurp this functionality into random.c but keep getting side-tracked into theoretical investigations of better functions, as I'm not a big fan of the current one from either a performance or strength perspective. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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