Re: Where exactly will arch_fast_hash be used

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 03:56:30PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> 
> "This CRC algorithm used by this hash is 'linear', ie hash(a xor b) ==
> hash(a) xor hash(b). This means that it is relatively easy for a remote
> attacker to generate multiple items with the same hash."

The attacker could be local too, e.g., opening a netlink socket
can be done by any user and gets hashed in net/netlink/af_netlink.c.

Cheers,
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