From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Thorsten Blum <blum@kernel.org>
Cc: "Olivia Mackall" <olivia@selenic.com>,
"Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@google.com>,
"Takashi Sakamoto" <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>,
"Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub)"
<u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>,
"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"Olivier Sobrie" <olivier.sobrie@silexinsight.com>,
"Waleed Ziad" <waleed94ziad@gmail.com>,
"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwrng: ba431 - fix reported byte count
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2026 20:12:34 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ar-Dkl6ekb9pRb28@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260924093401.113713-2-blum@kernel.org>
On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 11:33:59AM +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> Use the size of the buffer element instead of the pointer size to report
> the number of bytes read. Since data is a u32 pointer and sizeof(data)
> is 8 bytes on 64-bit systems, using the pointer size reports twice the
> number of bytes actually read.
>
> Fixes: 0289e9be5dc2 ("hwrng: ba431 - add support for BA431 hwrng")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <blum@kernel.org>
> ---
> drivers/char/hw_random/ba431-rng.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Patch applied. Thanks.
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2026-09-24 9:33 [PATCH] hwrng: ba431 - fix reported byte count Thorsten Blum
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