Re: /dev/random entropy calculations broken?

From: Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolabs.com)
Date: Tue Oct 02 2001 - 03:10:01 EST

Next message: Matti Aarnio: "Re: 'dd' local works, but not over net, help as to why?"
Previous message: LA Walsh: "'dd' local works, but not over net, help as to why?"
In reply to: Andreas Dilger: "Re: /dev/random entropy calculations broken?"
Next in thread: Oliver Xymoron: "Re: /dev/random entropy calculations broken?"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

On Oct 02, 2001 01:51 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> - if (r->entropy_count < nbytes*8) {
> + if (r->entropy_count < nbytes*8 && r->entropy_count < r->poolsize*32) {
^^^^^^^^
Doh! I hate it when I do that (compile, test, think, edit, send patch
without the compile, test steps). Should be "poolinfo.poolwords".

Cheers, Andreas

-- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Next message: Matti Aarnio: "Re: 'dd' local works, but not over net, help as to why?"
Previous message: LA Walsh: "'dd' local works, but not over net, help as to why?"
In reply to: Andreas Dilger: "Re: /dev/random entropy calculations broken?"
Next in thread: Oliver Xymoron: "Re: /dev/random entropy calculations broken?"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Oct 07 2001 - 21:00:18 EST