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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 2020 00:09:51 +0800
From:      Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org>
To:        Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r357246 - head/tests/sys/sys
Message-ID:  <CAKBkRUxs860g1zYXHJybA-ggtd31Ry41wdT-%2BpjHD2nrwcyJXA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <202001290525.00T5PKKh017113@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <202001290525.00T5PKKh017113@repo.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 1:25 PM Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Author: cem
> Date: Wed Jan 29 05:25:20 2020
> New Revision: 357246
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/357246
>
> Log:
>   qmath(3) test: Replace overcomplicated abomination with arc4random(3)
>
>   The horrific GENRAND construction bent over backwards to construct 64-bit
>   signed integers from the 31-bit output of random(3) for about 20 numbers per
>   test.  Reproducibility wasn't a goal: random(3) was seeded with
>   srandomdev(3).  Speed is not a factor for generating 20 integers with
>   arc4random(3).  Range is not a factor: all uses did not bound the range
>   beyond that of the full [INT64_MIN, INT64_MAX].  Just use arc4random(3).
>
>   Reported by:  Coverity
>   CIDs:         1404809, 1404817, 1404838, 1404840 and about 6x other
>                 identical reports of dubious code relating to the
>                 construction
>
> Modified:
>   head/tests/sys/sys/qmath_test.c

These two test cases are starting failing since this commit:
https://ci.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD-head-amd64-test/14110/testReport/sys.sys/qmath_test/qsubi_s64q/
https://ci.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD-head-amd64-test/14110/testReport/sys.sys/qmath_test/qsubq_s64q/

Can you help check them? Thanks!

Li-Wen



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