[PATCH v6 3/7] treewide: use get_random_{u8,u16}() when possible, part 1

Elliott, Robert (Servers) elliott at hpe.com
Tue Oct 11 12:18:40 AEDT 2022


> diff --git a/crypto/testmgr.c b/crypto/testmgr.c
...
> @@ -944,7 +944,7 @@ static void generate_random_bytes(u8 *buf, size_t count)
>  	default:
>  		/* Fully random bytes */
>  		for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
> -			buf[i] = (u8)prandom_u32();
> +			buf[i] = get_random_u8();

Should that whole for loop be replaced with this?
    get_random_bytes(buf, count);




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