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* [PATCH] jbd2: use a better hash function for the revoke table
@ 2014-10-30 14:00 Theodore Ts'o
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From: Theodore Ts'o @ 2014-10-30 14:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ext4 Developers List; +Cc: Andrey Ryabinin, Theodore Ts'o

The old hash function didn't work well for 64-bit block numbers, and
used undefined (negative) shift right behavior.  Use the generic
64-bit hash function instead.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
---
 fs/jbd2/revoke.c | 10 ++--------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/revoke.c b/fs/jbd2/revoke.c
index d5e95a1..c6cbaef 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/revoke.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/revoke.c
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/bio.h>
 #include <linux/log2.h>
+#include <linux/hash.h>
 #endif
 
 static struct kmem_cache *jbd2_revoke_record_cache;
@@ -130,16 +131,9 @@ static void flush_descriptor(journal_t *, struct buffer_head *, int, int);
 
 /* Utility functions to maintain the revoke table */
 
-/* Borrowed from buffer.c: this is a tried and tested block hash function */
 static inline int hash(journal_t *journal, unsigned long long block)
 {
-	struct jbd2_revoke_table_s *table = journal->j_revoke;
-	int hash_shift = table->hash_shift;
-	int hash = (int)block ^ (int)((block >> 31) >> 1);

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