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From: jacmet@sunsite•dk (Peter Korsgaard)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCHv2] hw_random: add driver for atmel true hardware random number generator
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:44:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ty7l3l5b.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111006203023.GE24034@tarshish> (Baruch Siach's message of "Thu, 6 Oct 2011 22:30:23 +0200")

>>>>> "Baruch" == Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos•co.il> writes:

Hi,

 >> +static int atmel_trng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max,
 >> +			   bool wait)
 >> +{
 >> +	struct atmel_trng *trng = container_of(rng, struct atmel_trng, rng);
 >> +	u32 *data = buf;
 >> +
 >> +	/* data ready? */
 >> +	if (readl(trng->base + TRNG_ODATA) & 1) {
 >> +		*data = readl(trng->base + TRNG_ODATA);
 >> +		return 4;

 Baruch> Shouldn't you check for max >= 4 before writing to *buf?

Conceptually, yes. The other hw_random drivers don't seem to do it
though, and the buffer size is guaranteed to be atleast 32 bytes, but I
can stick a '&& max >= 4' in the conditional if you prefer.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-06 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-06 17:56 [PATCHv2] hw_random: add driver for atmel true hardware random number generator Peter Korsgaard
2011-10-06 20:30 ` Baruch Siach
2011-10-06 20:44   ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2011-10-06 20:52     ` Baruch Siach
2011-10-07  9:21 ` Jamie Iles
2011-10-07  9:53 ` Nicolas Ferre
2011-10-07 18:45   ` Herbert Xu

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