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random: Return nbytes filled from hw RNG
authorTobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 23:15:32 +0000 (09:15 +1000)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Wed, 18 Jul 2018 01:32:48 +0000 (21:32 -0400)
commit753d433b586d1d43c487e3d660f5778c7c8d58ea
tree7f1a030f66811359e8c12c7e4d3668564d919684
parent8ddd6efa56c3fe23df9fe4cf5e2b49cc55416ef4
random: Return nbytes filled from hw RNG

Currently the function get_random_bytes_arch() has return value 'void'.
If the hw RNG fails we currently fall back to using get_random_bytes().
This defeats the purpose of requesting random material from the hw RNG
in the first place.

There are currently no intree users of get_random_bytes_arch().

Only get random bytes from the hw RNG, make function return the number
of bytes retrieved from the hw RNG.

Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
drivers/char/random.c
include/linux/random.h