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Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:04:17 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
Cc:     Jason@...c4.com, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, David.Laight@...lab.com,
        eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] siphash: add cryptographically secure PRF

Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com> wrote:
> Hi Jason, just a few comments:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 09:10:52PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>> +#define SIPHASH_ALIGNMENT __alignof__(u64)
>> +typedef u64 siphash_key_t[2];
> 
> I was confused by all the functions passing siphash_key_t "by value" until I saw
> that it's actually typedefed to u64[2].  Have you considered making it a struct
> instead, something like this?
> 
> typedef struct {
>        u64 v[2];
> } siphash_key_t;

If it's just an 128-bit value then we have u128 in crypto/b128ops.h
that could be generalised for this.

Cheers,
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