Re: [PATCH] fix typo/thinko in get_random_bytes()

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/16/2011 10:50 AM, Luck, Tony wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxx>

Ouch.  Good catch.  This, I guess, is the downside of doing this only on
the kernel paths... made this kind of errors harder to catch.

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>

Linus, do you want to take this one or should I put it in the urgent
queue in tip?

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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