Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Feb 2017 11:54:09 -0500 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: move halfmd4 into hash.c directly |
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 01:07:01AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > The "half md4" transform should not be used by any new code. And > fortunately, it's only used now by ext4. Since ext4 supports several > hashing methods, at some point it might be desirable to move to > something like SipHash. As an intermediate step, remove half md4 from > cryptohash.h and lib, and make it just a local function in ext4's > hash.c. There's precedent for doing this; the other function ext can use > for its hashes -- TEA -- is also implemented in the same place. Also, by > being a local function, this might allow gcc to perform some additional > optimizations. > > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> > Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> > Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Thanks, applied.
- Ted
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