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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 21:02:29 +0100 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org> To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com> Cc: 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: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v7 3/6] random: use SipHash in place of MD5) On 22.12.2016 20:56, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > It's also not quite clear to me why userspace needs to be able to > calculate the digest on its own. A bpf(BPF_CALC_PROGRAM_DIGEST) > command that takes a BPF program as input and hashes it would seem to > serve the same purpose, and that would allow the kernel to key the > digest and change the algorithm down the road without breaking things. I think that people expect digests of BPF programs to be stable over time and reboots.
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