Re: /dev/random entropy calculations broken?

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolabs.com)
Tue, 2 Oct 2001 02:10:01 -0600

On Oct 02, 2001 01:51 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> - if (r->entropy_count < nbytes*8) {
> + if (r->entropy_count < nbytes*8 && r->entropy_count < r->poolsize*32) {
^^^^^^^^
Doh! I hate it when I do that (compile, test, think, edit, send patch
without the compile, test steps). Should be "poolinfo.poolwords".

Cheers, Andreas

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