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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/16/2011 11:41 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> 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>
> 
> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to x86/urgent... I'll try to get the tip-bot back online today
if I can find the time.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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