From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757692AbdJKUJ0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2017 16:09:26 -0400 Received: from frisell.zx2c4.com ([192.95.5.64]:40349 "EHLO frisell.zx2c4.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752555AbdJKUJY (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2017 16:09:24 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QDekrDz5o42T2wzzzmVfgILoote5QMRjDUTZQInTZuadlfweTEiCc2jqOq5paJmyUc1DvDzBo2jWgYY1iw3ANE= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1507676974-1298-1-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc> References: <1507676974-1298-1-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc> From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:09:20 +0200 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] add %pX specifier To: "Tobin C. Harding" Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Linus Torvalds , Kees Cook , Paolo Bonzini , Tycho Andersen , "Roberts, William C" , Tejun Heo , Jordan Glover , Greg KH , Petr Mladek , Joe Perches , Ian Campbell , Sergey Senozhatsky , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Steven Rostedt , Chris Fries , Dave Weinstein , Daniel Micay , Djalal Harouni Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Tobin, On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:09 AM, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > > + hashval = hash_three_words( > + (unsigned long)ptr, > + (unsigned long)ptr >> 16 >> 16, > + boot_time_random_int); This is most likely not what you want to be using. Take a look at the siphash_* set of functions. If you're just hashing 1 64-bit pointer with some secret, use siphash_1u64, for example. That's the right interface for this purpose. Regards, Jason