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authorSimon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>2012-08-30 20:22:27 +0400
committerAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>2012-11-15 00:00:32 +0400
commit07568d0369f93cd54d2e5ca6f5c64f5b55557857 (patch)
treef30f4188b200b9cdb1d3b68d52f1d791e4791ac3 /net/batman-adv/hash.h
parentbf0098f22ca7b59e8844ac6882bbae230d34b98d (diff)
downloadlinux-07568d0369f93cd54d2e5ca6f5c64f5b55557857.tar.xz
batman-adv: don't rely on positions in struct for hashing
The hash functions in the bridge loop avoidance code expects the VLAN vid to be right after the mac address, but this is not guaranteed. Fix this by explicitly hashing over the right fields of the struct. Reported-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hash.h b/net/batman-adv/hash.h
index 977de9c75fc2..e05333905afd 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/hash.h
+++ b/net/batman-adv/hash.h
@@ -82,6 +82,28 @@ static inline void batadv_hash_delete(struct batadv_hashtable *hash,
}
/**
+ * batadv_hash_bytes - hash some bytes and add them to the previous hash
+ * @hash: previous hash value
+ * @data: data to be hashed
+ * @size: number of bytes to be hashed
+ *
+ * Returns the new hash value.
+ */
+static inline uint32_t batadv_hash_bytes(uint32_t hash, void *data,
+ uint32_t size)
+{
+ const unsigned char *key = data;
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
+ hash += key[i];
+ hash += (hash << 10);
+ hash ^= (hash >> 6);
+ }
+ return hash;
+}
+
+/**
* batadv_hash_add - adds data to the hashtable
* @hash: storage hash table
* @compare: callback to determine if 2 hash elements are identical