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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:34:30 +0100
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com>, "Daniel J . Bernstein" <djb@...yp.to>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>, David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function
Hey Linus,
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:30 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> No. The bug is talking about "words" in the first place.
>
> Depending on your background, a "word" can be generally be either 16
> bits or 32 bits (or, in some cases, 18 bits).
>
> In theory, a 64-bit entity can be a "word" too, but pretty much nobody
> uses that. Even architectures that started out with a 64-bit register
> size and never had any smaller historical baggage (eg alpha) tend to
> call 32-bit entities "words".
>
> So 16 bits can be a word, but some people/architectures will call it a
> "half-word".
>
> To make matters even more confusing, a "quadword" is generally always
> 64 bits, regardless of the size of "word".
>
> So please try to avoid the use of "word" entirely. It's too ambiguous,
> and it's not even helpful as a "size of the native register". It's
> almost purely random.
>
> For the kernel, we tend use
>
> - uX for types that have specific sizes (X being the number of bits)
>
> - "[unsigned] long" for native register size
>
> But never "word".
The voice of reason. Have a desired name for this function family?
siphash_3u64s
siphash_3u64
siphash_three_u64
siphash_3sixityfourbitintegers
Or does your reasonable dislike of "word" still allow for the use of
dword and qword, so that the current function names of:
siphash_3qwords
siphash_6dwords
are okay?
Jason
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