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Date:      Wed, 18 May 2016 17:41:08 +0000
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To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 209616] [ndis][patch] compat/ndis rand() doesn't respect the seed
Message-ID:  <bug-209616-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 209616
           Summary: [ndis][patch] compat/ndis rand() doesn't respect the
                    seed
           Product: Base System
           Version: 11.0-CURRENT
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Keywords: patch
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: kern
          Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: pfg@FreeBSD.org
          Keywords: patch

Created attachment 170453
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Attempt to do proper seeding.

I don't really use ndis(4) but I noticed that while it has an srand() API to
seed and it calls srandom(), the rand() function overrides it completely.

We should keep the seed as a more permanent value that rand() respects.
Something like the attached patch.

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