[PATCH] dragonfly: Fix legendre symbol calculation failure handling

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Mon Nov 6 10:57:57 PST 2023


On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 10:49:15PM +0530, Chaitanya Tata wrote:
> In case of low-memory conditions, the computation for legendre symbol
> can fail and return -2 as per documentation, but the check for that
> was missed here. And this can can cause an infinite loop searching for
> qr and qnr.
> 
> Break the loop if calculation fails, we can leave retry to the callers
> or user.

Thanks, applied.
 
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