Re: [PATCH 1/2] sun4i_ss_prng: fix return value of sun4i_ss_prng_generate

From: Artem Savkov
Date: Wed Feb 07 2018 - 05:52:10 EST


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@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 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 ?


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Regards,
Artem