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random: cleanup UUID handling
authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Thu, 24 Feb 2022 22:04:56 +0000 (23:04 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 25 Jun 2022 09:46:36 +0000 (11:46 +0200)
commit55add4d8bc3227bab90dff66301510623268e3bd
treed99de3f00cfb888c2d50e9774c8097c0c59cd3b0
parent430374f42c2175d0a0f4ff1e24ae9c6b1b74b723
random: cleanup UUID handling

commit 64276a9939ff414f2f0db38036cf4e1a0a703394 upstream.

Rather than hard coding various lengths, we can use the right constants.
Strings should be `char *` while buffers should be `u8 *`. Rather than
have a nonsensical and unused maxlength, just remove it. Finally, use
snprintf instead of sprintf, just out of good hygiene.

As well, remove the old comment about returning a binary UUID via the
binary sysctl syscall. That syscall was removed from the kernel in 5.5,
and actually, the "uuid_strategy" function and related infrastructure
for even serving it via the binary sysctl syscall was removed with
894d2491153a ("sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support") back
in 2.6.33.

Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/char/random.c