Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Feb 2018 11:52:01 +0100 | From | Artem Savkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] sun4i_ss_prng: fix return value of sun4i_ss_prng_generate |
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 10:56:59AM +0100, Corentin Labbe wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 10:20:21PM +0100, Artem Savkov wrote: > > According to crypto/rng.h generate function should return 0 on success > > and < 0 on error. > > > > Fixes: b8ae5c7387ad ("crypto: sun4i-ss - support the Security System PRNG") > > Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com> > > --- > > drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-prng.c | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-prng.c b/drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-prng.c > > index 0d01d1624252..5754e0b92fb0 100644 > > --- a/drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-prng.c > > +++ b/drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-prng.c > > @@ -52,5 +52,5 @@ int sun4i_ss_prng_generate(struct crypto_rng *tfm, const u8 *src, > > > > writel(0, ss->base + SS_CTL); > > spin_unlock(&ss->slock); > > - return dlen; > > + return 0; > > } > > -- > > 2.15.1 > > > > According to Documentation/crypto/api-samples.rst ("Code Example For Random Number Generator Usage") > you must return the length of data generated.
I don't think that example is the same as rng_alg.generate, it has a different protottype.
> So crypto_rng_generate/crypto_rng_get_bytes documentation in crypto/rng.h must be fixed.
It's not just documentation, every other rng driver returns it this way and it gets aead_init_geniv() (and subsequently crypto_create_tfm()) really confused because they expect the return value to be 0 or < 0.
> Herbert could you confirm ?
-- Regards, Artem
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