From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
Cc: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random.c bugfix
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:49:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011029214918.A27370@lynx.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011029163920.F806@lynx.no> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110291814100.30096-100000@waste.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110291814100.30096-100000@waste.org>; from oxymoron@waste.org on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 06:23:31PM -0600
On Oct 29, 2001 18:23 -0600, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> Backport to 2.2 might be a good idea too..
Note that the 2.2 kernel code is (AFAIK) quite different from the 2.4
kernel code for drivers/char/random.c. The serious bug - not incrementing
"in" was introduced in 2.3.16. The other real bug - trunctating the pool
entropy to the number of words in the pool, does not exist in 2.2. It
correctly compares it agains POOLBITS.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-30 4:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-27 4:21 [PATCH] random.c bugfix René Scharfe
2001-10-27 6:21 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-27 6:35 ` Robert Love
2001-10-28 23:57 ` Horst von Brand
2001-10-29 5:37 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-29 16:15 ` Horst von Brand
2001-10-29 16:58 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-10-29 23:39 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-30 0:23 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-10-30 3:50 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-30 16:07 ` Theodore Tso
2001-10-31 6:19 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 14:42 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-10-30 4:49 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2001-10-29 5:46 ` [PATCH] MAJOR " Andreas Dilger
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