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    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>
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