From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: tyson.w.smith@gmail.com
Cc: trinity@vger.kernel.org, tysmith@motorola.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] strip down get_len() to a call to rand32()
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 10:38:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150317143835.GC17556@codemonkey.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426537627-55047-1-git-send-email-tyson.w.smith@gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 01:27:07PM -0700, tyson.w.smith@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Tyson Smith <tyson.w.smith@gmail.com>
>
> The body of get_len() was the same as rand32() so applying it to a value
> from rand32() didn't offer much value. A switch case could be
> added that generates other length like values as well. This could include
> 2^n +/- ~2, page_size +/- 1, MAX_INT... etc.
Makes sense, but we could go a step further, and just remove random-length.c
entirely, and have generate-args.c just do the rand32 call.
(same for the 2-3 syscalls that call it)
Dave
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2015-03-16 20:27 [PATCH 7/7] strip down get_len() to a call to rand32() tyson.w.smith
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