util/deephash: introduce deliberate instability (#2477)

Seed the hash upon first use with the current time.
This ensures that the stability of the hash is bounded within
the lifetime of one program execution.
Hopefully, this prevents future bugs where someone assumes that
this hash is stable.

Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
pull/2483/head
Joe Tsai 3 years ago committed by GitHub
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@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
// Package deephash hashes a Go value recursively, in a predictable
// order, without looping.
// Package deephash hashes a Go value recursively, in a predictable order,
// without looping. The hash is only valid within the lifetime of a program.
// Users should not store the hash on disk or send it over the network.
// The hash is sufficiently strong and unique such that
// Hash(x) == Hash(y) is an appropriate replacement for x == y.
//
// This package, like most of the tailscale.com Go module, should be
// considered Tailscale-internal; we make no API promises.
@ -20,6 +23,7 @@ import (
"reflect"
"strconv"
"sync"
"time"
)
const scratchSize = 128
@ -62,10 +66,19 @@ func (s Sum) String() string {
return hex.EncodeToString(s.sum[:])
}
var (
once sync.Once
seed uint64
)
// Hash returns the hash of v.
func (h *hasher) Hash(v interface{}) (hash Sum) {
h.bw.Flush()
h.h.Reset()
once.Do(func() {
seed = uint64(time.Now().UnixNano())
})
h.uint(seed)
h.print(reflect.ValueOf(v))
h.bw.Flush()
// Sum into scratch & copy out, as hash.Hash is an interface

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