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* [musl] [PATCH] limits.h: define GETENTROPY_MAX
@ 2025-03-24 22:22 Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier
  2025-03-25  9:51 ` Nick Wellnhofer
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier @ 2025-03-24 22:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: musl; +Cc: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier

Part of POSIX.1-2024, added at the same time as getentropy() in Issue 1134:
https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1134
---
 include/limits.h      | 1 +
 src/misc/getentropy.c | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/limits.h b/include/limits.h
index 53a27b9d..c0085080 100644
--- a/include/limits.h
+++ b/include/limits.h
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@
 #define LINE_MAX 4096
 #define RE_DUP_MAX 255
 
+#define GETENTROPY_MAX 256
 #define NL_ARGMAX 9
 #define NL_MSGMAX 32767
 #define NL_SETMAX 255
diff --git a/src/misc/getentropy.c b/src/misc/getentropy.c
index 651ea95f..58004891 100644
--- a/src/misc/getentropy.c
+++ b/src/misc/getentropy.c
@@ -3,13 +3,14 @@
 #include <sys/random.h>
 #include <pthread.h>
 #include <errno.h>
+#include <limits.h>
 
 int getentropy(void *buffer, size_t len)
 {
 	int cs, ret = 0;
 	char *pos = buffer;
 
-	if (len > 256) {
+	if (len > GETENTROPY_MAX) {
 		errno = EIO;
 		return -1;
 	}
-- 
2.48.1


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* Re: [musl] [PATCH] limits.h: define GETENTROPY_MAX
  2025-03-24 22:22 [musl] [PATCH] limits.h: define GETENTROPY_MAX Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier
@ 2025-03-25  9:51 ` Nick Wellnhofer
  2025-03-25 21:05   ` Rich Felker
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Nick Wellnhofer @ 2025-03-25  9:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: musl; +Cc: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier

On Mar 24, 2025, at 23:22, Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me> wrote:
> 
> + if (len > GETENTROPY_MAX) {
> errno = EIO;
> return -1;
> }

POSIX requires EINVAL instead of EIO, so maybe this should be fixed as well.

Nick



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* Re: [musl] [PATCH] limits.h: define GETENTROPY_MAX
  2025-03-25  9:51 ` Nick Wellnhofer
@ 2025-03-25 21:05   ` Rich Felker
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Rich Felker @ 2025-03-25 21:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nick Wellnhofer; +Cc: musl, Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 10:51:25AM +0100, Nick Wellnhofer wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2025, at 23:22, Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me> wrote:
> > 
> > + if (len > GETENTROPY_MAX) {
> > errno = EIO;
> > return -1;
> > }
> 
> POSIX requires EINVAL instead of EIO, so maybe this should be fixed as well.

Yes, but separate change.

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