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authorDamien Miller <djm@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-06-04 00:50:24 +0000
committerDamien Miller <djm@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-06-04 00:50:24 +0000
commit1a4158bb8e92781f2de807dbf963b8909de8f693 (patch)
treeeccbe24d478e3b2acd16b33f61a4c697ec1b1378 /sys
parent571e5835f8796a3b8d5f4fc494cb6f26789eba8d (diff)
fix math screwup that reintroduced a bias for upper_bounds in range
(2^30,2^31). Nothing in the tree yet requests random numbers bounded by this range. report jakob!deraadt; ok deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'sys')
-rw-r--r--sys/dev/rnd.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sys/dev/rnd.c b/sys/dev/rnd.c
index 60df674f0aa..c2692c62305 100644
--- a/sys/dev/rnd.c
+++ b/sys/dev/rnd.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: rnd.c,v 1.87 2008/03/02 21:29:07 djm Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: rnd.c,v 1.88 2008/06/04 00:50:23 djm Exp $ */
/*
* rnd.c -- A strong random number generator
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ arc4random_uniform(u_int32_t upper_bound)
min = 1 + ~upper_bound; /* 2**32 - upper_bound */
else {
/* (2**32 - (x * 2)) % x == 2**32 % x when x <= 2**31 */
- min = ((0xffffffff - (upper_bound << 2)) + 1) % upper_bound;
+ min = ((0xffffffff - (upper_bound * 2)) + 1) % upper_bound;
}
#endif