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authorEric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>2026-04-19 23:33:47 -0700
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2026-05-07 16:09:59 +0800
commit040ad83b0e8aa065fd2fc641cacba8491a8b186d (patch)
tree904dd0a531c0f87ea341d78486215abd691dd924
parentddc4dedb9ba3c8eecbc8c050fffd46d1b7e75c21 (diff)
downloadlinux-next-history-040ad83b0e8aa065fd2fc641cacba8491a8b186d.tar.gz
crypto: drbg - Fix ineffective sanity check
Fix drbg_healthcheck_sanity() to correctly check the return value of drbg_generate(). drbg_generate() returns 0 on success, or a negative errno value on failure. drbg_healthcheck_sanity() incorrectly assumed that it returned a positive value on success. This didn't make the sanity check fail, but it made it ineffective. Fixes: cde001e4c3c3 ("crypto: rng - RNGs must return 0 in success case") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
-rw-r--r--crypto/drbg.c9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/drbg.c b/crypto/drbg.c
index de4c69032155e..f23b431bd4902 100644
--- a/crypto/drbg.c
+++ b/crypto/drbg.c
@@ -1737,7 +1737,6 @@ static int drbg_kcapi_seed(struct crypto_rng *tfm,
*/
static inline int __init drbg_healthcheck_sanity(void)
{
- int len = 0;
#define OUTBUFLEN 16
unsigned char buf[OUTBUFLEN];
struct drbg_state *drbg = NULL;
@@ -1782,11 +1781,11 @@ static inline int __init drbg_healthcheck_sanity(void)
max_request_bytes = drbg_max_request_bytes(drbg);
drbg_string_fill(&addtl, buf, max_addtllen + 1);
/* overflow addtllen with additional info string */
- len = drbg_generate(drbg, buf, OUTBUFLEN, &addtl);
- BUG_ON(0 < len);
+ ret = drbg_generate(drbg, buf, OUTBUFLEN, &addtl);
+ BUG_ON(ret == 0);
/* overflow max_bits */
- len = drbg_generate(drbg, buf, (max_request_bytes + 1), NULL);
- BUG_ON(0 < len);
+ ret = drbg_generate(drbg, buf, max_request_bytes + 1, NULL);
+ BUG_ON(ret == 0);
/* overflow max addtllen with personalization string */
ret = drbg_seed(drbg, &addtl, false);