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From: Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwrng: Pass entropy to add_hwgenerator_randomness() in bits, not bytes
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:49:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140728094929.GJ972@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406326758-4516-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org>

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 03:19:18PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> rng_get_data() returns the number of bytes read from the hardware.
> The entropy argument to add_hwgenerator_randomness() is passed
> directly to credit_entropy_bits() so we should be passing the
> number of bits, not bytes here.

Absolutely correct.

Acked-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>

> Fixes: be4000bc464 "hwrng: create filler thread"
> Cc: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
> ---
>  drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> index dc80cdab733d..6e02ec103cc7 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused)
>  			continue;
>  		}
>  		add_hwgenerator_randomness((void *)rng_fillbuf, rc,
> -					   (rc*current_quality)>>10);
> +					   rc * current_quality * 8 >> 10);
>  	}
>  	hwrng_fill = NULL;
>  	return 0;
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-28  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-25 22:19 [PATCH] hwrng: Pass entropy to add_hwgenerator_randomness() in bits, not bytes Stephen Boyd
2014-07-28  9:49 ` Torsten Duwe [this message]
2014-08-05 22:23   ` Theodore Ts'o

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