Re: [PATCH] util: Fix virUUIDGeneratePseudoRandomBytes

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On 10/28/2011 05:06 AM, Ryota Ozaki wrote:
It forgets to move a pointer to a buffer for UUID and as a result
fills only the first byte of the buffer.
---
  src/util/uuid.c |    2 +-
  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

How embarrassing! That bug has been present since commit bce1d26, Feb 2007! The only reason we haven't noticed it is that most systems have a good /dev/urandom.

ACK and pushed.


diff --git a/src/util/uuid.c b/src/util/uuid.c
index 0df3ebc..823a2b9 100644
--- a/src/util/uuid.c
+++ b/src/util/uuid.c
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ virUUIDGeneratePseudoRandomBytes(unsigned char *buf,
                                   int buflen)
  {
      while (buflen>  0) {
-        *buf = virRandom(256);
+        *buf++ = virRandom(256);
          buflen--;
      }


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