random: fix comment on "account"

This comment didn't quite keep up as extract_entropy() was split into
four functions.  Put each bit by the function it describes.

Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index fcc2bff8f887..2c532a6b0a21 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -958,17 +958,9 @@ static void push_to_pool(struct work_struct *work)
 }
 
 /*
- * These functions extracts randomness from the "entropy pool", and
- * returns it in a buffer.
- *
- * The min parameter specifies the minimum amount we can pull before
- * failing to avoid races that defeat catastrophic reseeding while the
- * reserved parameter indicates how much entropy we must leave in the
- * pool after each pull to avoid starving other readers.
- *
- * Note: extract_entropy() assumes that .poolwords is a multiple of 16 words.
+ * This function decides how many bytes to actually take from the
+ * given pool, and also debits the entropy count accordingly.
  */
-
 static size_t account(struct entropy_store *r, size_t nbytes, int min,
                       int reserved)
 {
@@ -1018,6 +1010,12 @@ retry:
         return ibytes;
 }
 
+/*
+ * This function does the actual extraction for extract_entropy and
+ * extract_entropy_user.
+ *
+ * Note: we assume that .poolwords is a multiple of 16 words.
+ */
 static void extract_buf(struct entropy_store *r, __u8 *out)
 {
         int i;
@@ -1079,6 +1077,15 @@ static void extract_buf(struct entropy_store *r, __u8 *out)
         memset(&hash, 0, sizeof(hash));
 }
 
+/*
+ * This function extracts randomness from the "entropy pool", and
+ * returns it in a buffer.
+ *
+ * The min parameter specifies the minimum amount we can pull before
+ * failing to avoid races that defeat catastrophic reseeding while the
+ * reserved parameter indicates how much entropy we must leave in the
+ * pool after each pull to avoid starving other readers.
+ */
 static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct entropy_store *r, void *buf,
                                  size_t nbytes, int min, int reserved)
 {
@@ -1129,6 +1136,10 @@ static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct entropy_store *r, void *buf,
         return ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * This function extracts randomness from the "entropy pool", and
+ * returns it in a userspace buffer.
+ */
 static ssize_t extract_entropy_user(struct entropy_store *r, void __user *buf,
                                     size_t nbytes)
 {