commit 93ddc51cbd325ef3d5cf3a5b9948ff65c09fc5aa Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> Date: Wed May 29 09:21:45 2019 -0400 Give a more useful failure messgae when we fail to minherit(). Part of ticket 30686. --- src/lib/crypt_ops/crypto_rand_fast.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/lib/crypt_ops/crypto_rand_fast.c b/src/lib/crypt_ops/crypto_rand_fast.c index b71ade81b..d2ce1a542 100644 --- a/src/lib/crypt_ops/crypto_rand_fast.c +++ b/src/lib/crypt_ops/crypto_rand_fast.c @@ -181,7 +181,11 @@ crypto_fast_rng_new_from_seed(const uint8_t *seed) #else /* We decided above that noinherit would always do _something_. Assert here * that we were correct. */ - tor_assert(inherit != INHERIT_RES_KEEP); + tor_assertf(inherit != INHERIT_RES_KEEP, + "We failed to create a non-inheritable memory region, even " + "though we believed such a failure to be impossible! This is " + "probably a bug in Tor support for your platform; please report " + "it."); #endif return result; }