Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 May 2018 20:19:21 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] random: Return nbytes filled from hw RNG |
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On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 09:33:39AM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > Currently the function get_random_bytes_arch() has return value 'void'. > If the hw RNG fails we currently fall back to using get_random_bytes(). > This defeats the purpose of requesting random material from the hw RNG > in the first place. > > There are currently no intree users of get_random_bytes_arch(). > > Only get random bytes from the hw RNG, make function return the number > of bytes retrieved from the hw RNG. > > Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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