Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v7 3/6] random: use SipHash in place of MD5 | From | Hannes Frederic Sowa <> | Date | Thu, 22 Dec 2016 16:05:53 +0100 |
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On 22.12.2016 14:10, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa > <hannes@stressinduktion.org> wrote: >> following up on what appears to be a random subject: ;) >> >> IIRC, ext4 code by default still uses half_md4 for hashing of filenames >> in the htree. siphash seems to fit this use case pretty good. > > I saw this too. I'll try to address it in v8 of this series.
This change would need a new version of the ext4 super block, because you should not change existing file systems.
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