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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 11:34:36 -0800
From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, 
	"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>, 
	"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, 
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>, David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>, 
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, 
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>, Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>, 
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com>
Subject: Re: BPF hash algo (Re: Re: [PATCH v7 3/6] random:
 use SipHash in place of MD5)

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa
> <hannes@...essinduktion.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2016-12-22 at 08:07 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>
>> We don't prevent ebpf programs being loaded based on the digest but
>> just to uniquely identify loaded programs from user space and match up
>> with their source.
>
> The commit log talks about using the hash to see if the program has
> already been compiled and JITted.  If that's done, then a collision
> will directly cause the kernel to malfunction.

Andy, please read the code.
we could have used jhash there just as well.
Collisions are fine.

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