Note that mbedtls_ctr_drbg_seed() must not be called twice
You can't reuse a CTR_DRBG context without free()ing it and re-init()ing it. This generally happened to work, but was never guaranteed. It could have failed with alternative implementations of the AES module because mbedtls_ctr_drbg_seed() calls mbedtls_aes_init() on a context which is already initialized if mbedtls_ctr_drbg_seed() hasn't been called before, plausibly causing a memory leak. Since the addition of mbedtls_ctr_drbg_set_nonce_len(), the second call to mbedtls_ctr_drbg_seed() uses a nonsensical value as the entropy nonce length. Calling free() and seed() with no intervening init fails when MBEDTLS_THREADING_C is enabled and all-bits-zero is not a valid mutex representation.
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* (maximum achievable strength when using AES-256).
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* \param ctx The CTR_DRBG context to seed.
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* It must have been initialized with
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* mbedtls_ctr_drbg_init().
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* After a successful call to mbedtls_ctr_drbg_seed(),
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* you may not call mbedtls_ctr_drbg_seed() again on
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* the same context unless you call
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* mbedtls_ctr_drbg_free() and mbedtls_ctr_drbg_init()
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* again first.
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* \param f_entropy The entropy callback, taking as arguments the
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* \p p_entropy context, the buffer to fill, and the
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* length of the buffer.
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