- 31 May, 2016 21 commits
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Nicolai Stange authored
Currently, if the input buffer is shorter than the expected length as indicated by its first two bytes, an MPI instance of this expected length will be allocated and filled with as much data as is available. The rest will remain uninitialized. Instead of leaving this condition undetected, an error code should be reported to the caller. Since this situation indicates that the input buffer's first two bytes, encoding the number of expected bits, are garbled, -EINVAL is appropriate here. If the input buffer is shorter than indicated by its first two bytes, make mpi_read_from_buffer() return -EINVAL. Get rid of the 'nread' variable: with the new semantics, the total number of bytes read from the input buffer is known in advance. Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Nicolai Stange authored
Currently, if digsig_verify_rsa() detects that the modulo's length is zero, i.e. mlen == 0, it returns -ENOMEM which doesn't really fit here. Make digsig_verify_rsa() return -EINVAL upon mlen == 0. Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Nicolai Stange authored
mpi_read_from_buffer() reads a MPI from a buffer into a newly allocated MPI instance. It expects the buffer's leading two bytes to contain the number of bits, followed by the actual payload. On failure, it returns NULL and updates the in/out argument ret_nread somewhat inconsistently: - If the given buffer is too short to contain the leading two bytes encoding the number of bits or their value is unsupported, then ret_nread will be cleared. - If the allocation of the resulting MPI instance fails, ret_nread is left as is. The only user of mpi_read_from_buffer(), digsig_verify_rsa(), simply checks for a return value of NULL and returns -ENOMEM if that happens. While this is all of cosmetic nature only, there is another error condition which currently isn't detectable by the caller of mpi_read_from_buffer(): if the given buffer is too small to hold the number of bits as encoded in its first two bytes, the return value will be non-NULL and *ret_nread > 0. In preparation of communicating this condition to the caller, let mpi_read_from_buffer() return error values by means of the ERR_PTR() mechanism. Make the sole caller of mpi_read_from_buffer(), digsig_verify_rsa(), check the return value for IS_ERR() rather than == NULL. If IS_ERR() is true, return the associated error value rather than the fixed -ENOMEM. Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Nicolai Stange authored
The number of bits, nbits, is calculated in mpi_read_raw_data() as follows: nbits = nbytes * 8; Afterwards, the number of leading zero bits of the first byte get subtracted: nbits -= count_leading_zeros(buffer[0]); However, count_leading_zeros() takes an unsigned long and thus, the u8 gets promoted to an unsigned long. Thus, the above doesn't subtract the number of leading zeros in the most significant nonzero input byte from nbits, but the number of leading zeros of the most significant nonzero input byte promoted to unsigned long, i.e. BITS_PER_LONG - 8 too many. Fix this by subtracting count_leading_zeros(...) - (BITS_PER_LONG - 8) from nbits only. Fixes: e1045992 ("MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an MPI") Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Nicolai Stange authored
In mpi_read_raw_data(), unsigned nbits is calculated as follows: nbits = nbytes * 8; and redundantly cleared later on if nbytes == 0: if (nbytes > 0) ... else nbits = 0; Purge this redundant clearing for the sake of clarity. Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Nicolai Stange authored
mpi_set_buffer() has no in-tree users and similar functionality is provided by mpi_read_raw_data(). Remove mpi_set_buffer(). Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Maxime Coquelin authored
This patch fixes the following warning: drivers/char/hw_random/stm32-rng.c: In function 'stm32_rng_read': drivers/char/hw_random/stm32-rng.c:82:19: warning: 'sr' may be used uninitialized in this function Reported-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
Submitters of device tree binding documentation may forget to CC the subsystem maintainer if this is missing. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
Submitters of device tree binding documentation may forget to CC the subsystem maintainer if this is missing. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Andrea Gelmini authored
Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gelma.net> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Andrea Gelmini authored
Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gelma.net> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Horia Geantă authored
This basically adds support for ls1043a platform. Signed-off-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Horia Geantă authored
There are SoCs like LS1043A where CAAM endianness (BE) does not match the default endianness of the core (LE). Moreover, there are requirements for the driver to handle cases like CPU_BIG_ENDIAN=y on ARM-based SoCs. This requires for a complete rewrite of the I/O accessors. PPC-specific accessors - {in,out}_{le,be}XX - are replaced with generic ones - io{read,write}[be]XX. Endianness is detected dynamically (at runtime) to allow for multiplatform kernels, for e.g. running the same kernel image on LS1043A (BE CAAM) and LS2080A (LE CAAM) armv8-based SoCs. While here: debugfs entries need to take into consideration the endianness of the core when displaying data. Add the necessary glue code so the entries remain the same, but they are properly read, regardless of the core and/or SEC endianness. Note: pdb.h fixes only what is currently being used (IPsec). Reviewed-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor-dan.ambarus@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Porosanu <alexandru.porosanu@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Cristian Stoica authored
The offset field is 13 bits wide; make sure we don't overwrite more than that in the caam hardware scatter gather structure. Signed-off-by: Cristian Stoica <cristian.stoica@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Horia Geantă authored
This will allow device drivers to consistently use io{read,write}XX also for 64-bit accesses. Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Horia Geantă authored
This will allow device drivers to consistently use io{read,write}XXbe also for 64-bit accesses. Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Porosanu <alexandru.porosanu@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Horia Geantă authored
This will allow device drivers to consistently use io{read,write}XX also for 64-bit accesses. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Horia Geantă authored
While reviewing the addition of io{read,write}64be accessors, Arnd -finds a potential problem: "If an architecture overrides readq/writeq to have barriers but does not override ioread64be/iowrite64be, this will lack the barriers and behave differently from the little-endian version. I think the only affected architecture is ARC, since ARM and ARM64 both override the big-endian accessors to have the correct barriers, and all others don't use barriers at all." -suggests a fix for the same problem in existing code (16/32-bit accessors); the fix leads "to a double-swap on architectures that don't override the io{read,write}{16,32}be accessors, but it will work correctly on all architectures without them having to override these accessors." Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Tadeusz Struk authored
The sizeof(*ctx->dec_cd) and sizeof(*ctx->enc_cd) are equal, but we should use the correct one for freeing memory anyway. Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Stephan Mueller authored
The CRYPTO_MSG_GETALG netlink message type provides a buffer to the kernel to retrieve information from the kernel. The data buffer will not provide any input and will not be read. Hence the nlmsg_parse is not applicable to this netlink message type. This patch fixes the following kernel log message when using this netlink interface: netlink: 208 bytes leftover after parsing attributes in process `XXX'. Patch successfully tested with libkcapi from [1] which uses CRYPTO_MSG_GETALG to obtain cipher-specific information from the kernel. [1] http://www.chronox.de/libkcapi.htmlSigned-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Stephan Mueller authored
Add the MODULE_ALIAS for the cra_driver_name of the different ciphers to allow an automated loading if a driver name is used. Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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- 30 May, 2016 1 commit
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
Pull crypto fixes from Herbert Xu: "This fixes the following issues: - missing selection in public_key that may result in a build failure - Potential crash in error path in omap-sham - ccp AES XTS bug that affects requests larger than 4096" * 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: crypto: ccp - Fix AES XTS error for request sizes above 4096 crypto: public_key: select CRYPTO_AKCIPHER crypto: omap-sham - potential Oops on error in probe
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- 29 May, 2016 4 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsiLinus Torvalds authored
Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley: "This is a set of four fixes noticed in the merge window. The aacraid one is an optimisation, the mp3sas one fixes a spurious printk, the sd_check_events one fixes a theoretical race and the failed zero length commands fixes a bug in our completion/retry routines that has been causing problems in the field" * tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: aacraid: do not activate events on non-SRC adapters mpt3sas: add missing curly braces sd: get disk reference in sd_check_events() scsi_lib: correctly retry failed zero length REQ_TYPE_FS commands
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Linus Torvalds authored
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George Spelvin authored
The self-test was updated to cover zero-length strings; the function needs to be updated, too. Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net> Fixes: fcfd2fbf ("fs/namei.c: Add hashlen_string() function") Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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George Spelvin authored
The original name was simply hash_string(), but that conflicted with a function with that name in drivers/base/power/trace.c, and I decided that calling it "hashlen_" was better anyway. But you have to do it in two places. [ This caused build errors for architectures that don't define CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS - Linus ] Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Fixes: fcfd2fbf ("fs/namei.c: Add hashlen_string() function") Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 28 May, 2016 14 commits
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Mikulas Patocka authored
The HPFS filesystem used generic_show_options to produce string that is displayed in /proc/mounts. However, there is a problem that the options may disappear after remount. If we mount the filesystem with option1 and then remount it with option2, /proc/mounts should show both option1 and option2, however it only shows option2 because the whole option string is replaced with replace_mount_options in hpfs_remount_fs. To fix this bug, implement the hpfs_show_options function that prints options that are currently selected. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mikulas Patocka authored
Commit c8f33d0b ("affs: kstrdup() memory handling") checks if the kstrdup function returns NULL due to out-of-memory condition. However, if we are remounting a filesystem with no change to filesystem-specific options, the parameter data is NULL. In this case, kstrdup returns NULL (because it was passed NULL parameter), although no out of memory condition exists. The mount syscall then fails with ENOMEM. This patch fixes the bug. We fail with ENOMEM only if data is non-NULL. The patch also changes the call to replace_mount_options - if we didn't pass any filesystem-specific options, we don't call replace_mount_options (thus we don't erase existing reported options). Fixes: c8f33d0b ("affs: kstrdup() memory handling") Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.1+ Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mikulas Patocka authored
Commit ce657611 ("hpfs: kstrdup() out of memory handling") checks if the kstrdup function returns NULL due to out-of-memory condition. However, if we are remounting a filesystem with no change to filesystem-specific options, the parameter data is NULL. In this case, kstrdup returns NULL (because it was passed NULL parameter), although no out of memory condition exists. The mount syscall then fails with ENOMEM. This patch fixes the bug. We fail with ENOMEM only if data is non-NULL. The patch also changes the call to replace_mount_options - if we didn't pass any filesystem-specific options, we don't call replace_mount_options (thus we don't erase existing reported options). Fixes: ce657611 ("hpfs: kstrdup() out of memory handling") Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle: "This is the secondnd batch of MIPS patches for 4.7. Summary: CPS: - Copy EVA configuration when starting secondary VPs. EIC: - Clear Status IPL. Lasat: - Fix a few off by one bugs. lib: - Mark intrinsics notrace. Not only are the intrinsics uninteresting, it would cause infinite recursion. MAINTAINERS: - Add file patterns for MIPS BRCM device tree bindings. - Add file patterns for mips device tree bindings. MT7628: - Fix MT7628 pinmux typos. - wled_an pinmux gpio. - EPHY LEDs pinmux support. Pistachio: - Enable KASLR VDSO: - Build microMIPS VDSO for microMIPS kernels. - Fix aliasing warning by building with `-fno-strict-aliasing' for debugging but also tracing them might result in recursion. Misc: - Add missing FROZEN hotplug notifier transitions. - Fix clk binding example for varioius PIC32 devices. - Fix cpu interrupt controller node-names in the DT files. - Fix XPA CPU feature separation. - Fix write_gc0_* macros when writing zero. - Add inline asm encoding helpers. - Add missing VZ accessor microMIPS encodings. - Fix little endian microMIPS MSA encodings. - Add 64-bit HTW fields and fix its configuration. - Fix sigreturn via VDSO on microMIPS kernel. - Lots of typo fixes. - Add definitions of SegCtl registers and use them" * 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (49 commits) MIPS: Add missing FROZEN hotplug notifier transitions MIPS: Build microMIPS VDSO for microMIPS kernels MIPS: Fix sigreturn via VDSO on microMIPS kernel MIPS: devicetree: fix cpu interrupt controller node-names MIPS: VDSO: Build with `-fno-strict-aliasing' MIPS: Pistachio: Enable KASLR MIPS: lib: Mark intrinsics notrace MIPS: Fix 64-bit HTW configuration MIPS: Add 64-bit HTW fields MAINTAINERS: Add file patterns for mips device tree bindings MAINTAINERS: Add file patterns for mips brcm device tree bindings MIPS: Simplify DSP instruction encoding macros MIPS: Add missing tlbinvf/XPA microMIPS encodings MIPS: Fix little endian microMIPS MSA encodings MIPS: Add missing VZ accessor microMIPS encodings MIPS: Add inline asm encoding helpers MIPS: Spelling fix lets -> let's MIPS: VR41xx: Fix typo MIPS: oprofile: Fix typo MIPS: math-emu: Fix typo ...
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Guenter Roeck authored
Various builds (such as i386:allmodconfig) fail with fs/binfmt_aout.c:133:2: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'return' fs/binfmt_aout.c:134:1: error: expected identifier or '(' before '}' token [ Oops. My bad, I had stupidly thought that "allmodconfig" covered this on x86-64 too, but it obviously doesn't. Egg on my face. - Linus ] Fixes: 5d22fc25 ("mm: remove more IS_ERR_VALUE abuses") Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull string hash improvements from George Spelvin: "This series does several related things: - Makes the dcache hash (fs/namei.c) useful for general kernel use. (Thanks to Bruce for noticing the zero-length corner case) - Converts the string hashes in <linux/sunrpc/svcauth.h> to use the above. - Avoids 64-bit multiplies in hash_64() on 32-bit platforms. Two 32-bit multiplies will do well enough. - Rids the world of the bad hash multipliers in hash_32. This finishes the job started in commit 689de1d6 ("Minimal fix-up of bad hashing behavior of hash_64()") The vast majority of Linux architectures have hardware support for 32x32-bit multiply and so derive no benefit from "simplified" multipliers. The few processors that do not (68000, h8/300 and some models of Microblaze) have arch-specific implementations added. Those patches are last in the series. - Overhauls the dcache hash mixing. The patch in commit 0fed3ac8 ("namei: Improve hash mixing if CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS") was an off-the-cuff suggestion. Replaced with a much more careful design that's simultaneously faster and better. (My own invention, as there was noting suitable in the literature I could find. Comments welcome!) - Modify the hash_name() loop to skip the initial HASH_MIX(). This would let us salt the hash if we ever wanted to. - Sort out partial_name_hash(). The hash function is declared as using a long state, even though it's truncated to 32 bits at the end and the extra internal state contributes nothing to the result. And some callers do odd things: - fs/hfs/string.c only allocates 32 bits of state - fs/hfsplus/unicode.c uses it to hash 16-bit unicode symbols not bytes - Modify bytemask_from_count to handle inputs of 1..sizeof(long) rather than 0..sizeof(long)-1. This would simplify users other than full_name_hash" Special thanks to Bruce Fields for testing and finding bugs in v1. (I learned some humbling lessons about "obviously correct" code.) On the arch-specific front, the m68k assembly has been tested in a standalone test harness, I've been in contact with the Microblaze maintainers who mostly don't care, as the hardware multiplier is never omitted in real-world applications, and I haven't heard anything from the H8/300 world" * 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux: h8300: Add <asm/hash.h> microblaze: Add <asm/hash.h> m68k: Add <asm/hash.h> <linux/hash.h>: Add support for architecture-specific functions fs/namei.c: Improve dcache hash function Eliminate bad hash multipliers from hash_32() and hash_64() Change hash_64() return value to 32 bits <linux/sunrpc/svcauth.h>: Define hash_str() in terms of hashlen_string() fs/namei.c: Add hashlen_string() function Pull out string hash to <linux/stringhash.h>
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George Spelvin authored
This will improve the performance of hash_32() and hash_64(), but due to complete lack of multi-bit shift instructions on H8, performance will still be bad in surrounding code. Designing H8-specific hash algorithms to work around that is a separate project. (But if the maintainers would like to get in touch...) Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp
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George Spelvin authored
Microblaze is an FPGA soft core that can be configured various ways. If it is configured without a multiplier, the standard __hash_32() will require a call to __mulsi3, which is a slow software loop. Instead, use a shift-and-add sequence for the constant multiply. GCC knows how to do this, but it's not as clever as some. Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net> Cc: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com> Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
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George Spelvin authored
This provides a multiply by constant GOLDEN_RATIO_32 = 0x61C88647 for the original mc68000, which lacks a 32x32-bit multiply instruction. Yes, the amount of optimization effort put in is excessive. :-) Shift-add chain found by Yevgen Voronenko's Hcub algorithm at http://spiral.ece.cmu.edu/mcm/gen.htmlSigned-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macq.eu> Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
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George Spelvin authored
This is just the infrastructure; there are no users yet. This is modelled on CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM; a CONFIG_ symbol declares the existence of <asm/hash.h>. That file may define its own versions of various functions, and define HAVE_* symbols (no CONFIG_ prefix!) to suppress the generic ones. Included is a self-test (in lib/test_hash.c) that verifies the basics. It is NOT in general required that the arch-specific functions compute the same thing as the generic, but if a HAVE_* symbol is defined with the value 1, then equality is tested. Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macq.eu> Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org Cc: Alistair Francis <alistai@xilinx.com> Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp
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George Spelvin authored
Patch 0fed3ac8 improved the hash mixing, but the function is slower than necessary; there's a 7-instruction dependency chain (10 on x86) each loop iteration. Word-at-a-time access is a very tight loop (which is good, because link_path_walk() is one of the hottest code paths in the entire kernel), and the hash mixing function must not have a longer latency to avoid slowing it down. There do not appear to be any published fast hash functions that: 1) Operate on the input a word at a time, and 2) Don't need to know the length of the input beforehand, and 3) Have a single iterated mixing function, not needing conditional branches or unrolling to distinguish different loop iterations. One of the algorithms which comes closest is Yann Collet's xxHash, but that's two dependent multiplies per word, which is too much. The key insights in this design are: 1) Barring expensive ops like multiplies, to diffuse one input bit across 64 bits of hash state takes at least log2(64) = 6 sequentially dependent instructions. That is more cycles than we'd like. 2) An operation like "hash ^= hash << 13" requires a second temporary register anyway, and on a 2-operand machine like x86, it's three instructions. 3) A better use of a second register is to hold a two-word hash state. With careful design, no temporaries are needed at all, so it doesn't increase register pressure. And this gets rid of register copying on 2-operand machines, so the code is smaller and faster. 4) Using two words of state weakens the requirement for one-round mixing; we now have two rounds of mixing before cancellation is possible. 5) A two-word hash state also allows operations on both halves to be done in parallel, so on a superscalar processor we get more mixing in fewer cycles. I ended up using a mixing function inspired by the ChaCha and Speck round functions. It is 6 simple instructions and 3 cycles per iteration (assuming multiply by 9 can be done by an "lea" instruction): x ^= *input++; y ^= x; x = ROL(x, K1); x += y; y = ROL(y, K2); y *= 9; Not only is this reversible, two consecutive rounds are reversible: if you are given the initial and final states, but not the intermediate state, it is possible to compute both input words. This means that at least 3 words of input are required to create a collision. (It also has the property, used by hash_name() to avoid a branch, that it hashes all-zero to all-zero.) The rotate constants K1 and K2 were found by experiment. The search took a sample of random initial states (I used 1023) and considered the effect of flipping each of the 64 input bits on each of the 128 output bits two rounds later. Each of the 8192 pairs can be considered a biased coin, and adding up the Shannon entropy of all of them produces a score. The best-scoring shifts also did well in other tests (flipping bits in y, trying 3 or 4 rounds of mixing, flipping all 64*63/2 pairs of input bits), so the choice was made with the additional constraint that the sum of the shifts is odd and not too close to the word size. The final state is then folded into a 32-bit hash value by a less carefully optimized multiply-based scheme. This also has to be fast, as pathname components tend to be short (the most common case is one iteration!), but there's some room for latency, as there is a fair bit of intervening logic before the hash value is used for anything. (Performance verified with "bonnie++ -s 0 -n 1536:-2" on tmpfs. I need a better benchmark; the numbers seem to show a slight dip in performance between 4.6.0 and this patch, but they're too noisy to quote.) Special thanks to Bruce fields for diligent testing which uncovered a nasty fencepost error in an earlier version of this patch. [checkpatch.pl formatting complaints noted and respectfully disagreed with.] Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net> Tested-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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George Spelvin authored
The "simplified" prime multipliers made very bad hash functions, so get rid of them. This completes the work of 689de1d6. To avoid the inefficiency which was the motivation for the "simplified" multipliers, hash_64() on 32-bit systems is changed to use a different algorithm. It makes two calls to hash_32() instead. drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/af9015.c uses the old GOLDEN_RATIO_PRIME_32 for some horrible reason, so it inherits a copy of the old definition. Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net> Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
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George Spelvin authored
That's all that's ever asked for, and it makes the return type of hash_long() consistent. It also allows (upcoming patch) an optimized implementation of hash_64 on 32-bit machines. I tried adding a BUILD_BUG_ON to ensure the number of bits requested was never more than 32 (most callers use a compile-time constant), but adding <linux/bug.h> to <linux/hash.h> breaks the tools/perf compiler unless tools/perf/MANIFEST is updated, and understanding that code base well enough to update it is too much trouble. I did the rest of an allyesconfig build with such a check, and nothing tripped. Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
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George Spelvin authored
Finally, the first use of previous two patches: eliminate the separate ad-hoc string hash functions in the sunrpc code. Now hash_str() is a wrapper around hash_string(), and hash_mem() is likewise a wrapper around full_name_hash(). Note that sunrpc code *does* call hash_mem() with a zero length, which is why the previous patch needed to handle that in full_name_hash(). (Thanks, Bruce, for finding that!) This also eliminates the only caller of hash_long which asks for more than 32 bits of output. The comment about the quality of hashlen_string() and full_name_hash() is jumping the gun by a few patches; they aren't very impressive now, but will be improved greatly later in the series. Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net> Tested-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net> Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
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