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| author | Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> | 2011-11-16 10:50:56 -0800 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2011-11-16 16:41:02 -0800 |
| commit | 0d2f096b8785b67c38afcf6e1fbb9674af2e05ca (patch) | |
| tree | ccd9354a7b3d9752928c2b82979b89e28f417af8 | |
| parent | 78345d2edc25e001558f3b7c85906f645d38d23c (diff) | |
| download | linux-hpc-0d2f096b8785b67c38afcf6e1fbb9674af2e05ca.tar.gz | |
random: Fix handing of arch_get_random_long in get_random_bytes()
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.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4ec4061010261a4cb0@agluck-desktop.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | 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 63e19ba56bbea5..6035ab8d5ef7e2 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; } |