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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 14:21:53 +0200
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To: noloader@...il.com
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>, 
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, 
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/13] random: add get_random_{bytes,u32,u64,int,long,once}_wait
 family

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com> wrote:
>> These functions are simple convenience wrappers that call
>> wait_for_random_bytes before calling the respective get_random_*
>> function.
>
> It may be advantageous to add a timeout, too.

This was in v1, but was removed because of a lack of particular use
case in this context.

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