[PATCH v3 13/14] crypto: blake2b - update file comment

Eric Biggers ebiggers at kernel.org
Wed Dec 23 03:10:02 EST 2020


From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>

The file comment for blake2b_generic.c makes it sound like it's the
reference implementation of BLAKE2b with only minor changes.  But it's
actually been changed a lot.  Update the comment to make this clearer.

Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba at suse.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>
---
 crypto/blake2b_generic.c | 23 ++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crypto/blake2b_generic.c b/crypto/blake2b_generic.c
index 963f7fe0e4ea8..6704c03558896 100644
--- a/crypto/blake2b_generic.c
+++ b/crypto/blake2b_generic.c
@@ -1,21 +1,18 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR Apache-2.0)
 /*
- * BLAKE2b reference source code package - reference C implementations
+ * Generic implementation of the BLAKE2b digest algorithm.  Based on the BLAKE2b
+ * reference implementation, but it has been heavily modified for use in the
+ * kernel.  The reference implementation was:
  *
- * Copyright 2012, Samuel Neves <sneves at dei.uc.pt>.  You may use this under the
- * terms of the CC0, the OpenSSL Licence, or the Apache Public License 2.0, at
- * your option.  The terms of these licenses can be found at:
+ *	Copyright 2012, Samuel Neves <sneves at dei.uc.pt>.  You may use this under
+ *	the terms of the CC0, the OpenSSL Licence, or the Apache Public License
+ *	2.0, at your option.  The terms of these licenses can be found at:
  *
- * - CC0 1.0 Universal : http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
- * - OpenSSL license   : https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html
- * - Apache 2.0        : https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *	- CC0 1.0 Universal : http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
+ *	- OpenSSL license   : https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html
+ *	- Apache 2.0        : https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  *
- * More information about the BLAKE2 hash function can be found at
- * https://blake2.net.
- *
- * Note: the original sources have been modified for inclusion in linux kernel
- * in terms of coding style, using generic helpers and simplifications of error
- * handling.
+ * More information about BLAKE2 can be found at https://blake2.net.
  */
 
 #include <asm/unaligned.h>
-- 
2.29.2




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