From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>,
bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Subject: Re: [patch 9/9] Add bcm43xx HW RNG support
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 22:51:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605122251.52561.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605121816.55025.vda@ilport.com.ua>
On Friday 12 May 2006 17:16, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> 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); ?
Nope, the code is correct.
--
Greetings Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-12 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-12 10:35 [patch 0/9] New Generic HW RNG (#3) mb
2006-05-12 10:35 ` [patch 1/9] Remove old HW RNG support mb
2006-05-12 10:35 ` [patch 2/9] Add new generic HW RNG core mb
2006-05-12 10:35 ` [patch 3/9] Add Intel HW RNG driver mb
2006-05-12 11:08 ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-05-12 20:48 ` Michael Buesch
2006-05-12 10:35 ` [patch 4/9] Add AMD " mb
2006-05-12 10:35 ` [patch 5/9] Add Geode " mb
2006-05-12 11:05 ` David Vrabel
2006-05-12 20:46 ` Michael Buesch
2006-05-12 21:06 ` David Vrabel
2006-05-15 15:35 ` Jordan Crouse
2006-05-12 10:35 ` [patch 6/9] Add VIA " mb
2006-05-12 10:35 ` [patch 7/9] Add ixp4xx " mb
2006-05-12 10:35 ` [patch 8/9] Add TI OMAP CPU family " mb
2006-05-12 10:35 ` [patch 9/9] Add bcm43xx HW RNG support mb
2006-05-12 15:16 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-05-12 15:20 ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-12 20:51 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
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