[libvirt] [PATCH] util: virrandom: make virRandomBits endian-safe

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Thu Aug 2 10:28:45 UTC 2018


On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 10:17:32AM +0200, Bjoern Walk wrote:
> Pino Toscano <ptoscano at redhat.com> [2018-08-02, 10:02AM +0200]:
> > I do not think this patch is correct: we are dealing with random bytes,
> > so there is no "endianness" for them.
> 
> Well, it's not incorrect either, isn't it? I agree that endianness
> doesn't matter for random data, but in the same time, it doesn't hurt to
> have the same random data generated on big- and little-endian machines.
> And it gives an easy and future-proof fix for the mocked tests.

Lets just modijfy tests/virrandommock.c to add mocking of virRandomBits
alongside virRandomBytes.

Regards,
Daniel
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