1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>crypto_rng_get_bytes</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Kernel Crypto API"><link rel="up" href="ch05s14.html" title="Crypto API Random Number API"><link rel="prev" href="API-crypto-free-rng.html" title="crypto_free_rng"><link rel="next" href="API-crypto-rng-reset.html" title="crypto_rng_reset"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">crypto_rng_get_bytes</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-crypto-free-rng.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Crypto API Random Number API</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-crypto-rng-reset.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-crypto-rng-get-bytes"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>crypto_rng_get_bytes &#8212; 
2  get random number
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">crypto_rng_get_bytes </b>(</code></td><td>struct crypto_rng * <var class="pdparam">tfm</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>u8 * <var class="pdparam">rdata</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>unsigned int <var class="pdparam">dlen</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1098395564"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>tfm</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     cipher handle
5    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>rdata</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
6     output buffer holding the random numbers
7    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>dlen</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
8     length of the output buffer
9    </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1098399228"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
10   This function fills the caller-allocated buffer with random numbers using the
11   random number generator referenced by the cipher handle.
12</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1098399972"></a><h2>Return</h2><p>
13   0 function was successful; &lt; 0 if an error occurred
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