Tweaks to strings in 24500

diff --git a/changes/ticket24500 b/changes/ticket24500
index 0f1778d46d1945fa10ac730a72b1890881a3aa44..b49b7a555119a27833d0b61ab27a21d07ab27611 100644 (file)
--- a/changes/ticket24500
+++ b/changes/ticket24500
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-  o Code simplification and refactoring: 
-    - Making more useful log messages for errno errors on getrandom() call.
+  o Minor features (logging):
+    - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails.
       Closes ticket 24500.

diff --git a/src/common/crypto.c b/src/common/crypto.c
index 7f034ee949189e0001b7683b337ec6287d987722..380f038f427a9644283cd7a615e74a9c918173be 100644 (file)
--- a/src/common/crypto.c
+++ b/src/common/crypto.c
@@ -2877,12 +2877,12 @@ crypto_strongest_rand_syscall(uint8_t *out, size_t out_len)
 
       /* Useful log message for errno. */
       if (errno == ENOSYS) {
-        log_warn(LD_CRYPTO, "This warning is caused by ENOSYS error."
+        log_warn(LD_CRYPTO, "Can't get entropy from getrandom(). "
                  " You are running a version of Tor built to support"
-                 " getrandom(), but the kernel is too old and doesn't"
-                 " implement this function.");
+                 " getrandom(), but the kernel doesn't implement this"
+                 " implement this function--probably because it is too old?");
       } else {
-        log_warn(LD_CRYPTO, "Can't get entropy from getrandom(). %s error.",
+        log_warn(LD_CRYPTO, "Can't get entropy from getrandom(): %s.",
                  strerror(errno));
       }