From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DRBG: fix failure of generating multiple of 2**16 bytes
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 22:41:00 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140801144100.GG15005@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7159935.MYAcUzQ1Ny@myon.chronox.de>
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:47:33PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> The function drbg_generate_long slices the request into 2**16 byte
> or smaller chunks. However, the loop, however invokes the random number
> generation function with zero bytes when the request size is a multiple
> of 2**16 bytes. The fix prevents zero bytes requests.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Patch applied.
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