On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:06:52AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> The maximum values for additional input string or generated blocks is
> larger than 1<<32. To ensure a sensible value on 32 bit systems, return
> SIZE_MAX on 32 bit systems. This value is lower than the maximum allowed
> values defined in SP800-90A. The standard allow lower maximum values,
> but not larger values.
> 
> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <s...@canb.auug.org.au>
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang...@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smuel...@chronox.de>

Unfortunately there's a place in drbg where you add one to
drbg_max_addtl which will cause it to overflow back to zero.

Cheers,
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