Re: [PATCH] crypto: Fix test in get_prng_bytes()

2009-10-12 Thread Roel Kluin
Op 12-10-09 16:07, Herbert Xu schreef:
 On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:51:42AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
 .
 Or should this test be removed?

 diff --git a/crypto/ansi_cprng.c b/crypto/ansi_cprng.c
 index 3aa6e38..9162456 100644
 --- a/crypto/ansi_cprng.c
 +++ b/crypto/ansi_cprng.c
 @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ static int get_prng_bytes(char *buf, size_t nbytes, 
 struct prng_context *ctx)
 int err;
  
  
 -   if (nbytes  0)
 +   if ((ssize_t)nbytes  0)
 return -EINVAL;
  
 spin_lock_bh(ctx-prng_lock);
 No, you're quite right, its a harmless, but unneeded check.  Herbert, could 
 you
 pull this into cryptodev please?  Thank you.
 
 Hmm, if it's unneeded why don't we just kill it instead?

In that case:
--8--8-
size_t nbytes cannot be less than 0 and the test was redundant.

Acked-by: Neil Horman nhor...@tuxdriver.com
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin roel.kl...@gmail.com
---
diff --git a/crypto/ansi_cprng.c b/crypto/ansi_cprng.c
index 3aa6e38..47995ae 100644
--- a/crypto/ansi_cprng.c
+++ b/crypto/ansi_cprng.c
@@ -192,9 +192,6 @@ static int get_prng_bytes(char *buf, size_t nbytes, struct 
prng_context *ctx)
int err;
 
 
-   if (nbytes  0)
-   return -EINVAL;
-
spin_lock_bh(ctx-prng_lock);
 
err = -EINVAL;
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Re: [PATCH] crypto: Fix test in get_prng_bytes()

2009-10-12 Thread Neil Horman
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 04:22:05PM +0200, Roel Kluin wrote:
 Op 12-10-09 16:07, Herbert Xu schreef:
  On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:51:42AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
  .
  Or should this test be removed?
 
  diff --git a/crypto/ansi_cprng.c b/crypto/ansi_cprng.c
  index 3aa6e38..9162456 100644
  --- a/crypto/ansi_cprng.c
  +++ b/crypto/ansi_cprng.c
  @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ static int get_prng_bytes(char *buf, size_t nbytes, 
  struct prng_context *ctx)
int err;
   
   
  - if (nbytes  0)
  + if ((ssize_t)nbytes  0)
return -EINVAL;
   
spin_lock_bh(ctx-prng_lock);
  No, you're quite right, its a harmless, but unneeded check.  Herbert, 
  could you
  pull this into cryptodev please?  Thank you.
  
  Hmm, if it's unneeded why don't we just kill it instead?
 
 In that case:
 --8--8-
 size_t nbytes cannot be less than 0 and the test was redundant.
 
 Acked-by: Neil Horman nhor...@tuxdriver.com
 Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin roel.kl...@gmail.com
 ---
 diff --git a/crypto/ansi_cprng.c b/crypto/ansi_cprng.c
 index 3aa6e38..47995ae 100644
 --- a/crypto/ansi_cprng.c
 +++ b/crypto/ansi_cprng.c
 @@ -192,9 +192,6 @@ static int get_prng_bytes(char *buf, size_t nbytes, 
 struct prng_context *ctx)
   int err;
  
  
 - if (nbytes  0)
 - return -EINVAL;
 -
   spin_lock_bh(ctx-prng_lock);
  
   err = -EINVAL;
 


There you go, yes :)
Acked-by: Neil Horman nhor...@tuxdriver.com
Neil

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