Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:49:18 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] random.c bugfix |
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On Oct 29, 2001 18:23 -0600, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > Backport to 2.2 might be a good idea too..
Note that the 2.2 kernel code is (AFAIK) quite different from the 2.4 kernel code for drivers/char/random.c. The serious bug - not incrementing "in" was introduced in 2.3.16. The other real bug - trunctating the pool entropy to the number of words in the pool, does not exist in 2.2. It correctly compares it agains POOLBITS.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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