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newrole: use DJB2a string hash function

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The hash table implementation uses `& (h->size - 1)` to truncate
generated hashes to the number of buckets.  This operation is equal to
`% h->size` if and only if the size is a power of two (which seems to be
always the case).  One property of the binary and with a power of two
(and probably a small one <=2048) is all higher bits are discarded.
Thus a hash function is needed with a good avalanche effect, which the
current one is not.

Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: James Carter <jwcart2@gmail.com>
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Christian Göttsche 2023-08-16 14:38:45 +02:00 committed by James Carter
parent f1178a13dc
commit 3089f1f2fd
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@ -229,16 +229,13 @@ static int free_hashtab_entry(hashtab_key_t key, hashtab_datum_t d,
static unsigned int reqsymhash(hashtab_t h, const_hashtab_key_t key)
{
const char *p;
size_t size;
unsigned int val;
unsigned int hash = 5381;
unsigned char c;
val = 0;
size = strlen(key);
for (p = key; ((size_t) (p - key)) < size; p++)
val =
(val << 4 | (val >> (8 * sizeof(unsigned int) - 4))) ^ (*p);
return val & (h->size - 1);
while ((c = *(unsigned const char *)key++))
hash = ((hash << 5) + hash) ^ c;
return hash & (h->size - 1);
}
static int reqsymcmp(hashtab_t h