2018-08-30 19:47:18

by Thibaut Sautereau

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Subject: [PATCH] lib: fix three typos in Kconfig help text

Fix three typos in CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM help text.

Signed-off-by: Thibaut Sautereau <[email protected]>
---
lib/Kconfig.debug | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index c7fef0c56d6b..3e50cc93572c 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1277,13 +1277,13 @@ config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
- However, since users can not do anything actionble to
+ However, since users cannot do anything actionable to
address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single
warning for the first use of unseeded randomness.

Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
- those developers interersted in improving the security of
+ those developers interested in improving the security of
Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
subarchitecture).

--
2.18.0



2018-08-30 19:53:36

by Randy Dunlap

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: fix three typos in Kconfig help text

On 08/30/2018 12:45 PM, Thibaut Sautereau wrote:
> Fix three typos in CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM help text.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thibaut Sautereau <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>

Thanks.

> ---
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index c7fef0c56d6b..3e50cc93572c 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -1277,13 +1277,13 @@ config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
> time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
> so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
> to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
> - However, since users can not do anything actionble to
> + However, since users cannot do anything actionable to
> address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single
> warning for the first use of unseeded randomness.
>
> Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
> unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
> - those developers interersted in improving the security of
> + those developers interested in improving the security of
> Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
> subarchitecture).
>
>


--
~Randy