linux-kernel - [PATCH RESEND 1/2] Documentation: siphash: convert danger note to warning for HalfSipHash

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Date:   Sun, 17 Apr 2022 14:50:57 +0700
From:   Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RESEND 1/2] Documentation: siphash: convert danger note to warning for HalfSipHash

Render danger paragraph into warning block for emphasization.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/security/siphash.rst | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/security/siphash.rst b/Documentation/security/siphash.rst
index bd9363025fcbc1..42794a7e052f1e 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/siphash.rst
+++ b/Documentation/security/siphash.rst
@@ -121,12 +121,12 @@ even scarier, uses an easily brute-forcable 64-bit key (with a 32-bit output)
 instead of SipHash's 128-bit key. However, this may appeal to some
 high-performance `jhash` users.
 
-Danger!
-
-Do not ever use HalfSipHash except for as a hashtable key function, and only
-then when you can be absolutely certain that the outputs will never be
-transmitted out of the kernel. This is only remotely useful over `jhash` as a
-means of mitigating hashtable flooding denial of service attacks.
+.. warning::
+   Do not ever use HalfSipHash except for as a hashtable key function, and
+   only then when you can be absolutely certain that the outputs will never
+   be transmitted out of the kernel. This is only remotely useful over
+   `jhash` as a means of mitigating hashtable flooding denial of service
+   attacks.
 
 Generating a HalfSipHash key
 ============================
-- 
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