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-rw-r--r--src/util.cpp13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/util.cpp b/src/util.cpp
index 7946089571..a96963689a 100644
--- a/src/util.cpp
+++ b/src/util.cpp
@@ -169,8 +169,17 @@ void RandAddSeedPerfmon()
// Don't need this on Linux, OpenSSL automatically uses /dev/urandom
// Seed with the entire set of perfmon data
std::vector <unsigned char> vData(250000,0);
- unsigned long nSize = vData.size();
- long ret = RegQueryValueExA(HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA, "Global", NULL, NULL, begin_ptr(vData), &nSize);
+ long ret = 0;
+ unsigned long nSize = 0;
+ const size_t nMaxSize = 10000000; // Bail out at more than 10MB of performance data
+ while (true)
+ {
+ nSize = vData.size();
+ ret = RegQueryValueExA(HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA, "Global", NULL, NULL, begin_ptr(vData), &nSize);
+ if (ret != ERROR_MORE_DATA || vData.size() >= nMaxSize)
+ break;
+ vData.resize(std::max((vData.size()*3)/2, nMaxSize)); // Grow size of buffer exponentially
+ }
RegCloseKey(HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA);
if (ret == ERROR_SUCCESS)
{