Re: [PATCH v2] random: make more consistent use of integer types

[Dominik Brodowski]

Am Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 07:05:07PM +0100 schrieb Jason A. Donenfeld:
> We've been using a flurry of int, unsigned int, size_t, and ssize_t.
> Let's unify all of this into size_t where it makes sense, as it does in
> most places, and leave ssize_t for return values with possible errors.
> 
> In addition, keeping with the convention of other functions in this
> file, functions that are dealing with raw bytes now take void *
> consistently instead of a mix of that and u8 *, because much of the time
> we're actually passing some other structure that is then interpreted as
> bytes by the function.
> 
> We also take the opportunity to fix the outdated and incorrect comment
> in get_random_bytes_arch().
> 
> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>

	Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
	Dominik