Re: BUG_ON drivers/char/random.c:986

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:29:10PM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> 
> Looks like an overflow introduced by e33ba5fa7afce1a ("random: fix nasty
> entropy accounting bug"). Ted, what do you think about the following
> fix?

Ah, right.  We're only capping ibytes to be no more entropy in the
pool only in the r->limit case.

LGTM.  Can you send a patch with a description with a description and
a Signed-off-by?

						- Ted
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