Re: [patch 9/9] Add bcm43xx HW RNG support

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Friday 12 May 2006 13:35, Michael Buesch wrote:
> +static int bcm43xx_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, u32 *data)
> +{
> +	struct bcm43xx_private *bcm = (struct bcm43xx_private *)rng->priv;
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +
> +	bcm43xx_lock(bcm, flags);
> +	*data = bcm43xx_read16(bcm, BCM43xx_MMIO_RNG);

You are storing random 16-bit value _and_ 16 zero bits
into 32-bit memory location. Probably not a problem for
little-endian machine (you return 2, indicating that there
are only 2 bytes of randomness), but on big endian?

Didn't you mean

	*(u16*)data = bcm43xx_read16(bcm, BCM43xx_MMIO_RNG); ?

> +	bcm43xx_unlock(bcm, flags);
> +
> +	return (sizeof(u16));
> +}

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