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From: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] crypto: Fix test in get_prng_bytes()
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:09:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD32A75.5030706@gmail.com> (raw)

size_t nbytes cannot be less than 0.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
---
Or should this test be removed?

diff --git a/crypto/ansi_cprng.c b/crypto/ansi_cprng.c
index 3aa6e38..9162456 100644
--- a/crypto/ansi_cprng.c
+++ b/crypto/ansi_cprng.c
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ static int get_prng_bytes(char *buf, size_t nbytes, struct prng_context *ctx)
 	int err;
 
 
-	if (nbytes < 0)
+	if ((ssize_t)nbytes < 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	spin_lock_bh(&ctx->prng_lock);

             reply	other threads:[~2009-10-12 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-12 13:09 Roel Kluin [this message]
2009-10-12 13:51 ` [PATCH] crypto: Fix test in get_prng_bytes() Neil Horman
2009-10-12 14:07   ` Herbert Xu
2009-10-12 14:22     ` Roel Kluin
2009-10-12 14:29       ` Neil Horman
2009-10-27 10:52         ` Herbert Xu
2009-10-12 14:28     ` Neil Horman

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