Thread (39 messages) 39 messages, 7 authors, 2020-01-10

Re: [PATCH v3 2/8] random: Add a urandom_read_nowait() for random APIs that don't warn

From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: 2020-01-07 20:44:36
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On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 12:20:45AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
/dev/random and getrandom() never warn.  Split the meat of
urandom_read() into urandom_read_nowarn() and leave the warning code
in urandom_read().

This has no effect on kernel behavior, but it makes subsequent
patches more straightforward.  It also makes the fact that
getrandom() never warns more obvious.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Applied, thanks.

					- Ted
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