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From: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@remlab.net>
To: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v3 1/3] avutil/random_seed: use fread() in read_random()
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2023 18:34:51 +0300
Message-ID: <12237271.O9o76ZdvQC@basile.remlab.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230704232614.2785-1-jamrial@gmail.com>

Le keskiviikkona 5. heinäkuuta 2023, 2.26.12 EEST James Almer a écrit :
> This ensures the requested amount of bytes is read.

You're moving the problem though. Now, you may read more than necessary (and 
block longer than necessary) due to stdio internal buffering, which you did not 
disable.

> Also remove /dev/random as it's no longer necessary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial@gmail.com>
> ---
>  libavutil/random_seed.c | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/libavutil/random_seed.c b/libavutil/random_seed.c
> index 66dd504ef0..a51149235b 100644
> --- a/libavutil/random_seed.c
> +++ b/libavutil/random_seed.c
> @@ -49,17 +49,20 @@
>  static int read_random(uint32_t *dst, const char *file)
>  {
>  #if HAVE_UNISTD_H
> -    int fd = avpriv_open(file, O_RDONLY);
> -    int err = -1;
> +    FILE *fp = avpriv_fopen_utf8(file, "r");
> +    size_t err;
> 
> -    if (fd == -1)
> -        return -1;
> -    err = read(fd, dst, sizeof(*dst));
> -    close(fd);
> +    if (!fp)
> +        return AVERROR_UNKNOWN;
> +    err = fread(dst, 1, sizeof(*dst), fp);
> +    fclose(fp);
> 
> -    return err;
> +    if (err != sizeof(*dst))
> +        return AVERROR_UNKNOWN;
> +
> +    return 0;
>  #else
> -    return -1;
> +    return AVERROR(ENOSYS);
>  #endif
>  }
> 
> @@ -138,9 +141,7 @@ uint32_t av_get_random_seed(void)
>      return arc4random();
>  #endif
> 
> -    if (read_random(&seed, "/dev/urandom") == sizeof(seed))
> -        return seed;
> -    if (read_random(&seed, "/dev/random")  == sizeof(seed))
> +    if (!read_random(&seed, "/dev/urandom"))
>          return seed;
>      return get_generic_seed();
>  }


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-07-05 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-04 23:26 James Almer
2023-07-04 23:26 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v3 2/3] avutil/random_seed: add av_random_bytes() James Almer
2023-07-05 10:24   ` Anton Khirnov
2023-07-05 12:12     ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v4 2/4] " James Almer
2023-07-05 12:46       ` Anton Khirnov
2023-07-05 13:24         ` James Almer
2023-07-04 23:26 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v3 3/3] avutil/random_seed: add support for gcrypt and OpenSSL as source of randomness James Almer
2023-07-05 12:56   ` Anton Khirnov
2023-07-05 13:03     ` James Almer
2023-07-06  7:52       ` Anton Khirnov
2023-07-06 17:03         ` James Almer
2023-07-06 17:56           ` Marton Balint
2023-07-06 18:36             ` James Almer
2023-07-05 12:43 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v3 1/3] avutil/random_seed: use fread() in read_random() Anton Khirnov
2023-07-05 13:24   ` James Almer
2023-07-05 15:34 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont [this message]

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