Re: Algoritmic Complexity Attacks and 2.4.20 the dcache code

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Fri, 30 May 2003 23:41:38 -0700


From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 23:30:40 -0700
> If the strength reduction situation changes to being properly handled
> by gcc for most/all 64-bit arches, include/linux/hash.h can lose a #ifdef.

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 11:33:53PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> It's not a strength reduction issue, it's about not setting the
> multiply cost properly in the machine description.

If it's literally that trivial I'll put digging around the machine
descriptions on my TODO list.

-- wli
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