Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Dec 2014 23:29:29 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: Where exactly will arch_fast_hash be used |
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 03:26:37PM +0000, Thomas Graf wrote: > > As Daniel pointed out, this work originated for the OVS edge use > case where security is of less concern and the rehashing is > sufficient. Identifying collisions is less of interest as the user > space fall back provides a greater surface for an attack.
Well in that case the current setup I think is very misleading. It's inviting unsuspecting kernel developers to use it as a hash function for general hash tables, which AFAICS is something that it fails at miserably.
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