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| author | Pauli <pauli@openssl.org> | 2021-10-25 12:01:11 +1000 |
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| committer | Pauli <pauli@openssl.org> | 2021-10-26 20:03:37 +1000 |
| commit | f7bbebf831fd071ce8c4d1bbd8f02a4877456033 (patch) | |
| tree | 309ae6acbd73e916a799a07810b52ac477bcc312 /doc | |
| parent | 5b945f08c9878651312d193b431e057aacbadd13 (diff) | |
test-rand: return failure on not enough data, allow parent
The test-rand RNG was returning success when it had some but insufficient data.
Now, it returns failure and doesn't advance the data pointer.
The test-rand RNG was failing when a parent was specified. This case is now
ignored.
Fixes #16785
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16905)
(cherry picked from commit d4dfd983e32b32b633aaa9edec422cc30419c6f7)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man7/EVP_RAND-TEST-RAND.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man7/EVP_RAND-TEST-RAND.pod b/doc/man7/EVP_RAND-TEST-RAND.pod index 56e9d755e3..a70015345b 100644 --- a/doc/man7/EVP_RAND-TEST-RAND.pod +++ b/doc/man7/EVP_RAND-TEST-RAND.pod @@ -52,9 +52,8 @@ they can all be set as well as read. =item "test_entropy" (B<OSSL_RAND_PARAM_TEST_ENTROPY>) <octet string> Sets the bytes returned when the test generator is sent an entropy request. -When entropy is requested, these bytes are treated as a cyclic buffer and they -are repeated as required. The current position is remembered across generate -calls. +The current position is remembered across generate calls. +If there are insufficient data present to satisfy a call, an error is returned. =item "test_nonce" (B<OSSL_RAND_PARAM_TEST_NONCE>) <octet string> |