If the read succeceed in EGD_EntropySource::slow_poll, the loop would

just continue on instead of returning the length of the buffer recv'ed
from EGD.

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/log.txt b/doc/log.txt
index 9d9825494..4c2fbc373 100644
--- a/doc/log.txt
+++ b/doc/log.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
  - Wrap private structs in SSE2 SHA-1 code in anonymous namespace
  - Change configure.pl's CPU autodetection output to be more consistent
  - Disable using OpenSSL's AES due to crashes
+ - Fix bug preventing EGD entropy poller from working
  - Fix warning in /proc walking entropy poller
  - Fix compilation with IBM XLC for Cell 0.9
  - Fix integer overflow in Pooling_Allocator::get_more_core (bug id #27)
diff --git a/src/entropy/egd/es_egd.cpp b/src/entropy/egd/es_egd.cpp
index f493de33b..736d49a6f 100644
--- a/src/entropy/egd/es_egd.cpp
+++ b/src/entropy/egd/es_egd.cpp
@@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ u32bit EGD_EntropySource::slow_poll(byte output[], u32bit length)
 
       if(count < 0)
          return 0;
+
+      return static_cast<u32bit>(count);
       }
 
    return 0;