linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/24] uuid,afs: move struct uuid

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

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <31365.1496255131@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 31 May 2017 19:25:31 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/24] uuid,afs: move struct uuid_v1 back into afs

Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:

> This essentially is a partial revert of commit ff548773
> ("afs: Move UUID struct to linux/uuid.h") and moves struct uuid_v1 back into
> fs/afs as struct afs_uuid.  It however keeps it as big endian structure
> so that we can use the normal uuid generation helpers when casting to/from
> struct afs_uuid.
> 
> The V1 uuid intrepreatation in struct form isn't really useful to the
> rest of the kernel, and not really compatible to it either, so move it
> back to AFS instead of polluting the global uuid.h.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>