From f9c6d4987b23e0a514464bae6771933a48e4cd01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 21:40:41 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] random: fix BUG_ON caused by accounting simplification Commit ee1de406ba6eb1 ("random: simplify accounting logic") simplified things too much, in that it allows the following to trigger an overflow that results in a BUG_ON crash: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/zero bs=67108707 count=1 Thanks to Peter Zihlstra for discovering the crash, and Hannes Frederic for analyizing the root cause. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra Reported-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Cc: Greg Price --- Reading git-format-patch failed