Re: [PATCH 05/12] cifs: Add a function to Hash the contents of an iterator

[David Howells]

Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Add a function to push the contents of a BVEC-, KVEC- or XARRAY-type
> > iterator into a symmetric hash algorithm.
> 
> There is no such thing as a symmetric hash.  You're using shash
> which stands for synchronous hash.

Sorry, you're right.

> In any case, as I said in the previous review this is abusing the
> shash API.  Please use ahash instead.

It's already abusing the shash API, this doesn't change that, except where it
gets the data from.

I can have a go at conversion to ahash, but that will have to be a separate
patch set as it isn't trivial.  The problem is that the current code just
assumes it can push bits into the hash as it gets them - this is not possible
with ahash.

David