1. 04 Jun, 2016 4 commits
    • Martin Kepplinger's avatar
      rtc: pcf2123: use sign_extend32() for sign extension · 82df3e04
      Martin Kepplinger authored
      Use sign_extend32() instead of open coding sign extension.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
      82df3e04
    • Heinrich Schuchardt's avatar
      rtc: ds1685: correct day of month checking · c5776dec
      Heinrich Schuchardt authored
      The day of month is checked in ds1685_rtc_read_alarm
      and ds1685_rtc_set_alarm.
      
      Multiple errors exist in the day of month check.
      
      Operator ! has a higher priority than &&.
      (!(mday >= 1) && (mday <= 31)) is false for mday == 32.
      
      When verifying the day of month the binary and the BCD mode
      have to be considered.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHeinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
      c5776dec
    • Colin Ian King's avatar
      rtc: interface: ignore expired timers when enqueuing new timers · 2b2f5ff0
      Colin Ian King authored
      This patch fixes a RTC wakealarm issue, namely, the event fires during
      hibernate and is not cleared from the list, causing hwclock to block.
      
      The current enqueuing does not trigger an alarm if any expired timers
      already exist on the timerqueue. This can occur when a RTC wake alarm
      is used to wake a machine out of hibernate and the resumed state has
      old expired timers that have not been removed from the timer queue.
      This fix skips over any expired timers and triggers an alarm if there
      are no pending timers on the timerqueue. Note that the skipped expired
      timer will get reaped later on, so there is no need to clean it up
      immediately.
      
      The issue can be reproduced by putting a machine into hibernate and
      waking it with the RTC wakealarm.  Running the example RTC test program
      from tools/testing/selftests/timers/rtctest.c after the hibernate will
      block indefinitely.  With the fix, it no longer blocks after the
      hibernate resume.
      
      BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1333569Signed-off-by: default avatarColin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
      2b2f5ff0
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      sparc32: remove stale RTC_PORT definition · 279da149
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      sparc32:allmodconfig fails to build in next-20160602 as follows.
      
      In file included from drivers/block/floppy.c:185:0:
      include/linux/mc146818rtc.h: In function 'mc146818_is_updating':
      include/linux/mc146818rtc.h:138:9: error: 'rtc_port' undeclared (first use in this function)
      include/linux/mc146818rtc.h:138:9: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
      include/linux/mc146818rtc.h: In function 'mc146818_get_time':
      include/linux/mc146818rtc.h:172:17: error: 'rtc_port' undeclared (first use in this function)
      include/linux/mc146818rtc.h: In function 'mc146818_set_time':
      include/linux/mc146818rtc.h:278:8: error: 'rtc_port' undeclared (first use in this function)
      scripts/Makefile.build:295: recipe for target 'drivers/block/floppy.o' failed
      
      The reason is a duplicate definition of the RTC_PORT macro. The
      one in arch/sparc/include/asm/io_32.h was apparently used a long time
      ago for the drivers/char/rtc.c driver that is not available on SPARC
      any more, since we now select 'RTC_CLASS' unconditionally.
      
      Removing the macro fixes the build problem, and for consistency,
      this also removes the RTC_ALWAYS_BCD macro and the comment for both.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Reported-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
      Fixes: fd09cc80165c ("rtc: cmos: move mc146818rtc code out of asm-generic/rtc.h")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
      279da149
  2. 03 Jun, 2016 16 commits
  3. 29 May, 2016 5 commits
  4. 28 May, 2016 15 commits
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      hpfs: implement the show_options method · 037369b8
      Mikulas Patocka authored
      The HPFS filesystem used generic_show_options to produce string that is
      displayed in /proc/mounts.  However, there is a problem that the options
      may disappear after remount.  If we mount the filesystem with option1
      and then remount it with option2, /proc/mounts should show both option1
      and option2, however it only shows option2 because the whole option
      string is replaced with replace_mount_options in hpfs_remount_fs.
      
      To fix this bug, implement the hpfs_show_options function that prints
      options that are currently selected.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      037369b8
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      affs: fix remount failure when there are no options changed · 01d6e087
      Mikulas Patocka authored
      Commit c8f33d0b ("affs: kstrdup() memory handling") checks if the
      kstrdup function returns NULL due to out-of-memory condition.
      
      However, if we are remounting a filesystem with no change to
      filesystem-specific options, the parameter data is NULL.  In this case,
      kstrdup returns NULL (because it was passed NULL parameter), although no
      out of memory condition exists.  The mount syscall then fails with
      ENOMEM.
      
      This patch fixes the bug.  We fail with ENOMEM only if data is non-NULL.
      
      The patch also changes the call to replace_mount_options - if we didn't
      pass any filesystem-specific options, we don't call
      replace_mount_options (thus we don't erase existing reported options).
      
      Fixes: c8f33d0b ("affs: kstrdup() memory handling")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# v4.1+
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      01d6e087
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      hpfs: fix remount failure when there are no options changed · 44d51706
      Mikulas Patocka authored
      Commit ce657611 ("hpfs: kstrdup() out of memory handling") checks if
      the kstrdup function returns NULL due to out-of-memory condition.
      
      However, if we are remounting a filesystem with no change to
      filesystem-specific options, the parameter data is NULL.  In this case,
      kstrdup returns NULL (because it was passed NULL parameter), although no
      out of memory condition exists.  The mount syscall then fails with
      ENOMEM.
      
      This patch fixes the bug.  We fail with ENOMEM only if data is non-NULL.
      
      The patch also changes the call to replace_mount_options - if we didn't
      pass any filesystem-specific options, we don't call
      replace_mount_options (thus we don't erase existing reported options).
      
      Fixes: ce657611 ("hpfs: kstrdup() out of memory handling")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      44d51706
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus · 4029632c
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull more MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
       "This is the secondnd batch of MIPS patches for 4.7. Summary:
      
        CPS:
         - Copy EVA configuration when starting secondary VPs.
      
        EIC:
         - Clear Status IPL.
      
        Lasat:
         - Fix a few off by one bugs.
      
        lib:
         - Mark intrinsics notrace.  Not only are the intrinsics
           uninteresting, it would cause infinite recursion.
      
        MAINTAINERS:
         - Add file patterns for MIPS BRCM device tree bindings.
         - Add file patterns for mips device tree bindings.
      
        MT7628:
         - Fix MT7628 pinmux typos.
         - wled_an pinmux gpio.
         - EPHY LEDs pinmux support.
      
        Pistachio:
         - Enable KASLR
      
        VDSO:
         - Build microMIPS VDSO for microMIPS kernels.
         - Fix aliasing warning by building with `-fno-strict-aliasing' for
           debugging but also tracing them might result in recursion.
      
        Misc:
         - Add missing FROZEN hotplug notifier transitions.
         - Fix clk binding example for varioius PIC32 devices.
         - Fix cpu interrupt controller node-names in the DT files.
         - Fix XPA CPU feature separation.
         - Fix write_gc0_* macros when writing zero.
         - Add inline asm encoding helpers.
         - Add missing VZ accessor microMIPS encodings.
         - Fix little endian microMIPS MSA encodings.
         - Add 64-bit HTW fields and fix its configuration.
         - Fix sigreturn via VDSO on microMIPS kernel.
         - Lots of typo fixes.
         - Add definitions of SegCtl registers and use them"
      
      * 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (49 commits)
        MIPS: Add missing FROZEN hotplug notifier transitions
        MIPS: Build microMIPS VDSO for microMIPS kernels
        MIPS: Fix sigreturn via VDSO on microMIPS kernel
        MIPS: devicetree: fix cpu interrupt controller node-names
        MIPS: VDSO: Build with `-fno-strict-aliasing'
        MIPS: Pistachio: Enable KASLR
        MIPS: lib: Mark intrinsics notrace
        MIPS: Fix 64-bit HTW configuration
        MIPS: Add 64-bit HTW fields
        MAINTAINERS: Add file patterns for mips device tree bindings
        MAINTAINERS: Add file patterns for mips brcm device tree bindings
        MIPS: Simplify DSP instruction encoding macros
        MIPS: Add missing tlbinvf/XPA microMIPS encodings
        MIPS: Fix little endian microMIPS MSA encodings
        MIPS: Add missing VZ accessor microMIPS encodings
        MIPS: Add inline asm encoding helpers
        MIPS: Spelling fix lets -> let's
        MIPS: VR41xx: Fix typo
        MIPS: oprofile: Fix typo
        MIPS: math-emu: Fix typo
        ...
      4029632c
    • Guenter Roeck's avatar
      fs: fix binfmt_aout.c build error · d66492bc
      Guenter Roeck authored
      Various builds (such as i386:allmodconfig) fail with
      
        fs/binfmt_aout.c:133:2: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'return'
        fs/binfmt_aout.c:134:1: error: expected identifier or '(' before '}' token
      
      [ Oops. My bad, I had stupidly thought that "allmodconfig" covered this
        on x86-64 too, but it obviously doesn't.  Egg on my face.  - Linus ]
      
      Fixes: 5d22fc25 ("mm: remove more IS_ERR_VALUE abuses")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d66492bc
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux · 7e0fb73c
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull string hash improvements from George Spelvin:
       "This series does several related things:
      
         - Makes the dcache hash (fs/namei.c) useful for general kernel use.
      
           (Thanks to Bruce for noticing the zero-length corner case)
      
         - Converts the string hashes in <linux/sunrpc/svcauth.h> to use the
           above.
      
         - Avoids 64-bit multiplies in hash_64() on 32-bit platforms.  Two
           32-bit multiplies will do well enough.
      
         - Rids the world of the bad hash multipliers in hash_32.
      
           This finishes the job started in commit 689de1d6 ("Minimal
           fix-up of bad hashing behavior of hash_64()")
      
           The vast majority of Linux architectures have hardware support for
           32x32-bit multiply and so derive no benefit from "simplified"
           multipliers.
      
           The few processors that do not (68000, h8/300 and some models of
           Microblaze) have arch-specific implementations added.  Those
           patches are last in the series.
      
         - Overhauls the dcache hash mixing.
      
           The patch in commit 0fed3ac8 ("namei: Improve hash mixing if
           CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS") was an off-the-cuff suggestion.
           Replaced with a much more careful design that's simultaneously
           faster and better.  (My own invention, as there was noting suitable
           in the literature I could find.  Comments welcome!)
      
         - Modify the hash_name() loop to skip the initial HASH_MIX().  This
           would let us salt the hash if we ever wanted to.
      
         - Sort out partial_name_hash().
      
           The hash function is declared as using a long state, even though
           it's truncated to 32 bits at the end and the extra internal state
           contributes nothing to the result.  And some callers do odd things:
      
            - fs/hfs/string.c only allocates 32 bits of state
            - fs/hfsplus/unicode.c uses it to hash 16-bit unicode symbols not bytes
      
         - Modify bytemask_from_count to handle inputs of 1..sizeof(long)
           rather than 0..sizeof(long)-1.  This would simplify users other
           than full_name_hash"
      
        Special thanks to Bruce Fields for testing and finding bugs in v1.  (I
        learned some humbling lessons about "obviously correct" code.)
      
        On the arch-specific front, the m68k assembly has been tested in a
        standalone test harness, I've been in contact with the Microblaze
        maintainers who mostly don't care, as the hardware multiplier is never
        omitted in real-world applications, and I haven't heard anything from
        the H8/300 world"
      
      * 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux:
        h8300: Add <asm/hash.h>
        microblaze: Add <asm/hash.h>
        m68k: Add <asm/hash.h>
        <linux/hash.h>: Add support for architecture-specific functions
        fs/namei.c: Improve dcache hash function
        Eliminate bad hash multipliers from hash_32() and  hash_64()
        Change hash_64() return value to 32 bits
        <linux/sunrpc/svcauth.h>: Define hash_str() in terms of hashlen_string()
        fs/namei.c: Add hashlen_string() function
        Pull out string hash to <linux/stringhash.h>
      7e0fb73c
    • George Spelvin's avatar
      h8300: Add <asm/hash.h> · 4684fe95
      George Spelvin authored
      This will improve the performance of hash_32() and hash_64(), but due
      to complete lack of multi-bit shift instructions on H8, performance will
      still be bad in surrounding code.
      
      Designing H8-specific hash algorithms to work around that is a separate
      project.  (But if the maintainers would like to get in touch...)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGeorge Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
      Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
      Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp
      4684fe95
    • George Spelvin's avatar
      microblaze: Add <asm/hash.h> · 7b13277b
      George Spelvin authored
      Microblaze is an FPGA soft core that can be configured various ways.
      
      If it is configured without a multiplier, the standard __hash_32()
      will require a call to __mulsi3, which is a slow software loop.
      
      Instead, use a shift-and-add sequence for the constant multiply.
      GCC knows how to do this, but it's not as clever as some.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGeorge Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
      Cc: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com>
      Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
      7b13277b
    • George Spelvin's avatar
      m68k: Add <asm/hash.h> · 14c44b95
      George Spelvin authored
      This provides a multiply by constant GOLDEN_RATIO_32 = 0x61C88647
      for the original mc68000, which lacks a 32x32-bit multiply instruction.
      
      Yes, the amount of optimization effort put in is excessive. :-)
      
      Shift-add chain found by Yevgen Voronenko's Hcub algorithm at
      http://spiral.ece.cmu.edu/mcm/gen.htmlSigned-off-by: default avatarGeorge Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macq.eu>
      Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
      14c44b95
    • George Spelvin's avatar
      <linux/hash.h>: Add support for architecture-specific functions · 468a9428
      George Spelvin authored
      This is just the infrastructure; there are no users yet.
      
      This is modelled on CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM; a CONFIG_ symbol declares
      the existence of <asm/hash.h>.
      
      That file may define its own versions of various functions, and define
      HAVE_* symbols (no CONFIG_ prefix!) to suppress the generic ones.
      
      Included is a self-test (in lib/test_hash.c) that verifies the basics.
      It is NOT in general required that the arch-specific functions compute
      the same thing as the generic, but if a HAVE_* symbol is defined with
      the value 1, then equality is tested.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGeorge Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macq.eu>
      Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
      Cc: Alistair Francis <alistai@xilinx.com>
      Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
      Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
      Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp
      468a9428
    • George Spelvin's avatar
      fs/namei.c: Improve dcache hash function · 2a18da7a
      George Spelvin authored
      Patch 0fed3ac8 improved the hash mixing, but the function is slower
      than necessary; there's a 7-instruction dependency chain (10 on x86)
      each loop iteration.
      
      Word-at-a-time access is a very tight loop (which is good, because
      link_path_walk() is one of the hottest code paths in the entire kernel),
      and the hash mixing function must not have a longer latency to avoid
      slowing it down.
      
      There do not appear to be any published fast hash functions that:
      1) Operate on the input a word at a time, and
      2) Don't need to know the length of the input beforehand, and
      3) Have a single iterated mixing function, not needing conditional
         branches or unrolling to distinguish different loop iterations.
      
      One of the algorithms which comes closest is Yann Collet's xxHash, but
      that's two dependent multiplies per word, which is too much.
      
      The key insights in this design are:
      
      1) Barring expensive ops like multiplies, to diffuse one input bit
         across 64 bits of hash state takes at least log2(64) = 6 sequentially
         dependent instructions.  That is more cycles than we'd like.
      2) An operation like "hash ^= hash << 13" requires a second temporary
         register anyway, and on a 2-operand machine like x86, it's three
         instructions.
      3) A better use of a second register is to hold a two-word hash state.
         With careful design, no temporaries are needed at all, so it doesn't
         increase register pressure.  And this gets rid of register copying
         on 2-operand machines, so the code is smaller and faster.
      4) Using two words of state weakens the requirement for one-round mixing;
         we now have two rounds of mixing before cancellation is possible.
      5) A two-word hash state also allows operations on both halves to be
         done in parallel, so on a superscalar processor we get more mixing
         in fewer cycles.
      
      I ended up using a mixing function inspired by the ChaCha and Speck
      round functions.  It is 6 simple instructions and 3 cycles per iteration
      (assuming multiply by 9 can be done by an "lea" instruction):
      
      		x ^= *input++;
      	y ^= x;	x = ROL(x, K1);
      	x += y;	y = ROL(y, K2);
      	y *= 9;
      
      Not only is this reversible, two consecutive rounds are reversible:
      if you are given the initial and final states, but not the intermediate
      state, it is possible to compute both input words.  This means that at
      least 3 words of input are required to create a collision.
      
      (It also has the property, used by hash_name() to avoid a branch, that
      it hashes all-zero to all-zero.)
      
      The rotate constants K1 and K2 were found by experiment.  The search took
      a sample of random initial states (I used 1023) and considered the effect
      of flipping each of the 64 input bits on each of the 128 output bits two
      rounds later.  Each of the 8192 pairs can be considered a biased coin, and
      adding up the Shannon entropy of all of them produces a score.
      
      The best-scoring shifts also did well in other tests (flipping bits in y,
      trying 3 or 4 rounds of mixing, flipping all 64*63/2 pairs of input bits),
      so the choice was made with the additional constraint that the sum of the
      shifts is odd and not too close to the word size.
      
      The final state is then folded into a 32-bit hash value by a less carefully
      optimized multiply-based scheme.  This also has to be fast, as pathname
      components tend to be short (the most common case is one iteration!), but
      there's some room for latency, as there is a fair bit of intervening logic
      before the hash value is used for anything.
      
      (Performance verified with "bonnie++ -s 0 -n 1536:-2" on tmpfs.  I need
      a better benchmark; the numbers seem to show a slight dip in performance
      between 4.6.0 and this patch, but they're too noisy to quote.)
      
      Special thanks to Bruce fields for diligent testing which uncovered a
      nasty fencepost error in an earlier version of this patch.
      
      [checkpatch.pl formatting complaints noted and respectfully disagreed with.]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGeorge Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
      Tested-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
      2a18da7a
    • George Spelvin's avatar
      Eliminate bad hash multipliers from hash_32() and hash_64() · ef703f49
      George Spelvin authored
      The "simplified" prime multipliers made very bad hash functions, so get rid
      of them.  This completes the work of 689de1d6.
      
      To avoid the inefficiency which was the motivation for the "simplified"
      multipliers, hash_64() on 32-bit systems is changed to use a different
      algorithm.  It makes two calls to hash_32() instead.
      
      drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/af9015.c uses the old GOLDEN_RATIO_PRIME_32
      for some horrible reason, so it inherits a copy of the old definition.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGeorge Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
      Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
      Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
      ef703f49
    • George Spelvin's avatar
      Change hash_64() return value to 32 bits · 92d56774
      George Spelvin authored
      That's all that's ever asked for, and it makes the return
      type of hash_long() consistent.
      
      It also allows (upcoming patch) an optimized implementation
      of hash_64 on 32-bit machines.
      
      I tried adding a BUILD_BUG_ON to ensure the number of bits requested
      was never more than 32 (most callers use a compile-time constant), but
      adding <linux/bug.h> to <linux/hash.h> breaks the tools/perf compiler
      unless tools/perf/MANIFEST is updated, and understanding that code base
      well enough to update it is too much trouble.  I did the rest of an
      allyesconfig build with such a check, and nothing tripped.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGeorge Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
      92d56774
    • George Spelvin's avatar
      <linux/sunrpc/svcauth.h>: Define hash_str() in terms of hashlen_string() · 917ea166
      George Spelvin authored
      Finally, the first use of previous two patches: eliminate the
      separate ad-hoc string hash functions in the sunrpc code.
      
      Now hash_str() is a wrapper around hash_string(), and hash_mem() is
      likewise a wrapper around full_name_hash().
      
      Note that sunrpc code *does* call hash_mem() with a zero length, which
      is why the previous patch needed to handle that in full_name_hash().
      (Thanks, Bruce, for finding that!)
      
      This also eliminates the only caller of hash_long which asks for
      more than 32 bits of output.
      
      The comment about the quality of hashlen_string() and full_name_hash()
      is jumping the gun by a few patches; they aren't very impressive now,
      but will be improved greatly later in the series.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGeorge Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
      Tested-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>
      Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
      917ea166
    • George Spelvin's avatar
      fs/namei.c: Add hashlen_string() function · fcfd2fbf
      George Spelvin authored
      We'd like to make more use of the highly-optimized dcache hash functions
      throughout the kernel, rather than have every subsystem create its own,
      and a function that hashes basic null-terminated strings is required
      for that.
      
      (The name is to emphasize that it returns both hash and length.)
      
      It's actually useful in the dcache itself, specifically d_alloc_name().
      Other uses in the next patch.
      
      full_name_hash() is also tweaked to make it more generally useful:
      1) Take a "char *" rather than "unsigned char *" argument, to
         be consistent with hash_name().
      2) Handle zero-length inputs.  If we want more callers, we don't want
         to make them worry about corner cases.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGeorge Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
      fcfd2fbf