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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: tytso@mit.edu, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Subject: [PATCH] random: always fill buffer in get_random_bytes_wait
Date: Sun,  4 Feb 2018 23:07:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180204220746.12441-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> (raw)

In the unfortunate event that a developer fails to check the return
value of get_random_bytes_wait, or simply wants to make a "best effort"
attempt, for whatever that's worth, it's much better to still fill the
buffer with _something_ rather than catastrophically failing in the case
of an interruption. This is both a defense in depth measure against
inevitable programming bugs, as well as a means of making the API a bit
more useful.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
---
 include/linux/random.h | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/random.h b/include/linux/random.h
index 4024f7d9c77d..2ddf13b4281e 100644
--- a/include/linux/random.h
+++ b/include/linux/random.h
@@ -85,10 +85,8 @@ static inline unsigned long get_random_canary(void)
 static inline int get_random_bytes_wait(void *buf, int nbytes)
 {
 	int ret = wait_for_random_bytes();
-	if (unlikely(ret))
-		return ret;
 	get_random_bytes(buf, nbytes);
-	return 0;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 #define declare_get_random_var_wait(var) \
-- 
2.16.1

             reply	other threads:[~2018-02-04 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-04 22:07 Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2018-02-21  3:08 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-02-28 22:59 ` Theodore Ts'o

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