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* [PATCH] random: simplify fips mode
@ 2010-05-20  5:44 Matt Mackall
  2010-05-20  9:55 ` Herbert Xu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Matt Mackall @ 2010-05-20  5:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Herbert Xu; +Cc: Linux Mailing List, Steven Liu

Rather than dynamically allocate 10 bytes, move it to static allocation.
This saves space and avoids the need for error checking.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

diff -r a12387bbcc93 drivers/char/random.c
--- a/drivers/char/random.c	Thu Apr 08 10:02:02 2010 -0700
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c	Thu May 20 00:43:13 2010 -0500
@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@
 #define INPUT_POOL_WORDS 128
 #define OUTPUT_POOL_WORDS 32
 #define SEC_XFER_SIZE 512
+#define EXTRACT_SIZE 10
 
 /*
  * The minimum number of bits of entropy before we wake up a read on
@@ -414,7 +415,7 @@
 	unsigned add_ptr;
 	int entropy_count;
 	int input_rotate;
-	__u8 *last_data;
+	__u8 last_data[EXTRACT_SIZE];
 };
 
 static __u32 input_pool_data[INPUT_POOL_WORDS];
@@ -714,8 +715,6 @@
 }
 #endif
 
-#define EXTRACT_SIZE 10
-
 /*********************************************************************
  *
  * Entropy extraction routines
@@ -862,7 +861,7 @@
 	while (nbytes) {
 		extract_buf(r, tmp);
 
-		if (r->last_data) {
+		if (fips_enabled) {
 			spin_lock_irqsave(&r->lock, flags);
 			if (!memcmp(tmp, r->last_data, EXTRACT_SIZE))
 				panic("Hardware RNG duplicated output!\n");
@@ -951,9 +950,6 @@
 	now = ktime_get_real();
 	mix_pool_bytes(r, &now, sizeof(now));
 	mix_pool_bytes(r, utsname(), sizeof(*(utsname())));
-	/* Enable continuous test in fips mode */
-	if (fips_enabled)
-		r->last_data = kmalloc(EXTRACT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 
 static int rand_initialize(void)

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* Re: [PATCH] random: simplify fips mode
  2010-05-20  5:44 [PATCH] random: simplify fips mode Matt Mackall
@ 2010-05-20  9:55 ` Herbert Xu
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Herbert Xu @ 2010-05-20  9:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Matt Mackall; +Cc: Linux Mailing List, Steven Liu

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:44:17AM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> Rather than dynamically allocate 10 bytes, move it to static allocation.
> This saves space and avoids the need for error checking.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks a lot!
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