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Subject[ 15/44] fix typo/thinko in get_random_bytes()
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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@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.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/char/random.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ void get_random_bytes(void *buf, int nby
if (!arch_get_random_long(&v))
break;

- memcpy(buf, &v, chunk);
+ memcpy(p, &v, chunk);
p += chunk;
nbytes -= chunk;
}



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