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Tue Jun 14 11:07:14 EDT 2016 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-June/145165.html

Is this right? I thought we had decided that os.urandom should *not* 
fall back on getrandom on Linux?

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 02:36:27PM +0000, victor. stinner wrote:
> https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e028e86a5b73
> changeset:   102033:e028e86a5b73
> branch:      3.5
> parent:      102031:a36238de31ae
> user:        Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>
> date:        Tue Jun 14 16:31:35 2016 +0200
> summary:
>   Fix os.urandom() using getrandom() on Linux
> 
> Issue #27278: Fix os.urandom() implementation using getrandom() on Linux.
> Truncate size to INT_MAX and loop until we collected enough random bytes,
> instead of casting a directly Py_ssize_t to int.
> 
> files:
>   Misc/NEWS       |  4 ++++
>   Python/random.c |  2 +-
>   2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
> --- a/Misc/NEWS
> +++ b/Misc/NEWS
> @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
>  Library
>  -------
>  
> +- Issue #27278: Fix os.urandom() implementation using getrandom() on Linux.
> +  Truncate size to INT_MAX and loop until we collected enough random bytes,
> +  instead of casting a directly Py_ssize_t to int.
> +
>  - Issue #26386: Fixed ttk.TreeView selection operations with item id's
>    containing spaces.
>  
> diff --git a/Python/random.c b/Python/random.c
> --- a/Python/random.c
> +++ b/Python/random.c
> @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
>             to 1024 bytes */
>          n = Py_MIN(size, 1024);
>  #else
> -        n = size;
> +        n = Py_MIN(size, INT_MAX);
>  #endif
>  
>          errno = 0;
> 
> -- 
> Repository URL: https://hg.python.org/cpython

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