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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2017-12-09 19:24:18 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-12-09 19:24:18 (GMT)
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bpo-32260: don't byte swap siphash keys (#4771)
Reference siphash takes the keys as a bytes, so it makes sense to byte swap when reifying the keys as 64-bit integers. However, Python's siphash takes host integers in to start with.
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-09-11-03-51.bpo-32260.1DAO-p.rst3
-rw-r--r--Python/pyhash.c4
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-09-11-03-51.bpo-32260.1DAO-p.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-09-11-03-51.bpo-32260.1DAO-p.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..523ffe0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-09-11-03-51.bpo-32260.1DAO-p.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Don't byte swap the input keys to the SipHash algorithm on big-endian
+platforms. This should ensure siphash gives consistent results across
+platforms.
diff --git a/Python/pyhash.c b/Python/pyhash.c
index bc6786c..4494a2f 100644
--- a/Python/pyhash.c
+++ b/Python/pyhash.c
@@ -364,9 +364,7 @@ static PyHash_FuncDef PyHash_Func = {fnv, "fnv", 8 * SIZEOF_PY_HASH_T,
static uint64_t
-siphash24(uint64_t key0, uint64_t key1, const void *src, Py_ssize_t src_sz) {
- uint64_t k0 = _le64toh(key0);
- uint64_t k1 = _le64toh(key1);
+siphash24(uint64_t k0, uint64_t k1, const void *src, Py_ssize_t src_sz) {
uint64_t b = (uint64_t)src_sz << 56;
const uint64_t *in = (uint64_t*)src;