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From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
To: "Stephan Müller" <smueller@chronox.de>
Cc: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
	PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene@kernel.org>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] crypto: hw_random - Add new Exynos RNG driver
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 21:09:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170326180959.rmps6pj5376l45fz@kozik-lap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1535446.zHpTqe8jba@positron.chronox.de>

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 07:05:48PM +0200, Stephan Müller wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 26. März 2017, 18:46:02 CEST schrieb PrasannaKumar Muralidharan:
> 
> Hi 	Krzysztof,
> 
> > >> > +       if (slen < EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_SIZE) {
> > >> > +               dev_warn(rng->dev, "Seed too short (only %u bytes)\n",
> > >> > slen); +               return -EINVAL;
> > >> > +       }
> > >> 
> > >> Will it be helpful to print the required seed size?
> > > 
> > > It is in /proc/crypto... It is not a problem to print it but isn't that
> > > redundant?
> > 
> > Not necessary if it is already available.
> 
> Maybe the dev_warn should be removed. Note, unprivileged user space can 
> trigger this warning by simply invoking the seeding operation over and over 
> again with an insufficient seed size. This would clutter the log.

Makes sense. The generic dev_dbg() before would bring enough
information.

Best regards,
Krzysztof


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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-25 16:26 [PATCH v3 0/3] crypto: hw_random - Add new Exynos RNG driver Krzysztof Kozlowski
2017-03-25 16:26 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] " Krzysztof Kozlowski
2017-03-26 15:20   ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2017-03-26 16:01     ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2017-03-26 16:05       ` Stephan Müller
2017-03-26 16:46       ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2017-03-26 17:05         ` Stephan Müller
2017-03-26 18:09           ` Krzysztof Kozlowski [this message]
2017-03-26 17:11   ` Stephan Müller
2017-03-26 18:00     ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2017-03-26 21:25       ` Stephan Müller
2017-03-27  4:23         ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2017-03-27 13:53           ` Stephan Müller
2017-03-28 16:48             ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2017-03-28 17:41               ` Stephan Müller
2017-03-28 17:43                 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2017-03-25 16:26 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] ARM: exynos_defconfig: Enable Exynos RNG and user-space crypto API Krzysztof Kozlowski
2017-03-25 16:26 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: " Krzysztof Kozlowski
2017-03-25 16:32 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] crypto: hw_random - Add new Exynos RNG driver Stephan Müller

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