2.6.32-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Luck, Tony <tony.l...@intel.com>
commit bd29e568a4cb6465f6e5ec7c1c1f3ae7d99cbec1 upstream.
If there is an architecture-specific random number generator we use it
to acquire randomness one "long" at a time. We should put these random
words into consecutive words in the result buffer - not just overwrite
the first word again and again.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w...@1wt.eu>
---
drivers/char/random.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 93b3c29..f2a1651 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ void get_random_bytes(void *buf, int nbytes)
if (!arch_get_random_long(&v))
break;
- memcpy(buf, &v, chunk);
+ memcpy(p, &v, chunk);
p += chunk;
nbytes -= chunk;
}
--
1.7.2.1.45.g54fbc
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