Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 06/14] crypto: Change the qcrypto_random_bytes buffer type to void*

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 3/14/19 5:55 AM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> Using uint8_t* merely requires useless casts for use with
> other types to be filled with randomness.
> 
> Cc: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>

> ---
>  include/crypto/random.h  | 2 +-
>  crypto/random-gcrypt.c   | 2 +-
>  crypto/random-gnutls.c   | 2 +-
>  crypto/random-platform.c | 4 ++--
>  4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/crypto/random.h b/include/crypto/random.h
> index 8764ca0562..fde592904e 100644
> --- a/include/crypto/random.h
> +++ b/include/crypto/random.h
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
>   *
>   * Returns 0 on success, -1 on error
>   */
> -int qcrypto_random_bytes(uint8_t *buf,
> +int qcrypto_random_bytes(void *buf,
>                           size_t buflen,
>                           Error **errp);
>  
> diff --git a/crypto/random-gcrypt.c b/crypto/random-gcrypt.c
> index 9f1c9ee60e..7aea4ac81f 100644
> --- a/crypto/random-gcrypt.c
> +++ b/crypto/random-gcrypt.c
> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
>  
>  #include <gcrypt.h>
>  
> -int qcrypto_random_bytes(uint8_t *buf,
> +int qcrypto_random_bytes(void *buf,
>                           size_t buflen,
>                           Error **errp G_GNUC_UNUSED)
>  {
> diff --git a/crypto/random-gnutls.c b/crypto/random-gnutls.c
> index 445fd6a30b..ed6c9ca12f 100644
> --- a/crypto/random-gnutls.c
> +++ b/crypto/random-gnutls.c
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
>  #include <gnutls/gnutls.h>
>  #include <gnutls/crypto.h>
>  
> -int qcrypto_random_bytes(uint8_t *buf,
> +int qcrypto_random_bytes(void *buf,
>                           size_t buflen,
>                           Error **errp)
>  {
> diff --git a/crypto/random-platform.c b/crypto/random-platform.c
> index bdaa8fbbfb..51c219701d 100644
> --- a/crypto/random-platform.c
> +++ b/crypto/random-platform.c
> @@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ int qcrypto_random_init(Error **errp)
>      return 0;
>  }
>  
> -int qcrypto_random_bytes(uint8_t *buf G_GNUC_UNUSED,
> -                         size_t buflen G_GNUC_UNUSED,
> +int qcrypto_random_bytes(void *buf,
> +                         size_t buflen,
>                           Error **errp)
>  {
>  #ifdef _WIN32
>