On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 04:12:53PM -0700, Cong Wang wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 1:34 PM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: > > From: Shaohua Li <s...@kernel.org> > > Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 12:03:37 -0700 > > > >> + /* Since this is being sent on the wire obfuscate hash a bit > >> + * to minimize possbility that any useful information to an > >> + * attacker is leaked. Only lower 20 bits are relevant. > >> + */ > >> + rol32(hash, 16); > > > > This doesn't help anything at all. > > I believe the above code is copy-n-pasted from ip6_make_flowlabel() > (with few adjustments). Don't know why we can't refactor that function > for reuse.
There are just several lines of code, I really don't want to add adhoc if-else for fast path. Thanks, Shaohua