Re: [PATCH v7 1/5] random: Blocking API for accessing nonblocking_pool

From: Stephan Mueller
Date: Wed May 20 2015 - 14:49:54 EST


Am Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2015, 02:45:35 schrieb Herbert Xu:

Hi Herbert,

> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 07:44:39PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > + if (unlikely(nonblocking_pool.initialized == 0)) {
> > + do {
> > + rc = wait_event_interruptible(urandom_init_wait,
> > + nonblocking_pool.initialized);
> > + } while (rc == -ERESTARTSYS);
>
> This is just a convoluted way of doing an uninterruptible sleep.
> Either make it uninterruptible or allow the function to return
> an error.

Sorry, I overlooked the availability of wait_event. I was looking for it
initially, but missed it. I will fix it right away.

--
Ciao
Stephan
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