Do not use uninitialized memory to seed the PRNG as it may confuse

code checking tools.
PR: 1499

diff --git a/crypto/rand/randfile.c b/crypto/rand/randfile.c
index 7533ea57882dd7bf92891501adea50ce517a620c..43053b19bf8679b878d026760e5d5877fb715519 100644 (file)
--- a/crypto/rand/randfile.c
+++ b/crypto/rand/randfile.c
@@ -103,10 +103,8 @@ int RAND_load_file(const char *file, long bytes)
        if (file == NULL) return(0);
 
 #ifndef OPENSSL_NO_POSIX_IO
-       i=stat(file,&sb);
-       /* If the state fails, put some crap in anyway */
+       if (stat(file,&sb) < 0) return(0);
        RAND_add(&sb,sizeof(sb),0.0);
-       if (i < 0) return(0);
 #endif
        if (bytes == 0) return(ret);