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. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
