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Fix assertion failure in SimpleRandomizer::getRandomBytes#823

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fix-getrandom-assertion-failure
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Fix assertion failure in SimpleRandomizer::getRandomBytes#823
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errno might not be initialized to 0, and we may get both rv == -1 and
errno != ENOSYS. This leads to assertion failure. Since
getrandom_linux always returns -1 on failure, checking errno is
useless in this function.

See #336 (comment)

errno might not be initialized to 0, and we may get both rv == -1 and
errno != ENOSYS.  This leads to assertion failure.  Since
getrandom_linux always returns -1 on failure, checking errno is
useless in this function.
@tatsuhiro-t tatsuhiro-t added the bug label Jan 6, 2017
@tatsuhiro-t tatsuhiro-t added this to the v1.31.0 milestone Jan 6, 2017
@tatsuhiro-t tatsuhiro-t merged commit 6abf238 into master Jan 7, 2017
@tatsuhiro-t tatsuhiro-t deleted the fix-getrandom-assertion-failure branch January 7, 2017 07:36
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