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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: do not pretend to handle premature next security model
Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 12:17:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YoDTKTxrCXnIxDyJ@zx2c4.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YoBNHEqeNahziJt5@sol.localdomain>

Hi Eric,

On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 05:45:16PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 12:32:19PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> > 
> > On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 01:09:13AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > > A couple very minor comments:
> > 
> > Thanks, will fix these.
> > 
> > Jason
> 
> Found one more:
> 
>  /*
>   * Return whether the crng seed is considered to be sufficiently
>   * old that a reseeding might be attempted.
> 
> It should say "that a reseeding is needed", or something similar.

Ahh, since it's now unconditional. Nice catch. Fixed as you suggested.

Jason

      reply	other threads:[~2022-05-15 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-04 11:30 [PATCH] random: do not pretend to handle premature next security model Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-11  8:09 ` Eric Biggers
2022-05-11 10:32   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-15  0:45     ` Eric Biggers
2022-05-15 10:17       ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]

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