lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:11:27 -0400 From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca> Cc: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] libext2fs: add metadata checksum and snapshot feature flags On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 05:09:13PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > I thought it would be better to move s_checksum to be the last field in the > superblock to avoid multiple calls to the CRC function? Did you see my comment about just zero'ing the checksum field before running the CRC? We're going to have to do that for other data structures, such as the inode structure, and it's what we do with the block group descriptor checksum. Might as well do that everywhere for consistency's sake. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Powered by blists - more mailing lists