siphash24() is wildly used by projects nowadays.
It's certainly slower then our djb hashing that we used before.
But quite likely it's fast enough for us, given how wildly it is
used. I think it would be hard to profile NetworkManager to show
that the performance of hash tables is the issue, be it with
djb or siphash24.
Certainly with siphash24() it's much harder to exploit the hashing
algorithm to cause worst case hash operations (provided that the
seed is kept private). Does this better resistance against a denial
of service matter for us? Probably not, but let's better be safe then
sorry.
Note that systemd's implementation uses a different seed for each hash
table (at least, after the hash table grows to a certain size).
We don't do that and use only one global seed.
The privious NM_HASH_* macros directly operated on a guint value
and were thus close to the actual implementation.
Replace them by adding a NMHashState struct and accessors to
update the hash state. This hides the implementation better
and would allow us to carry more state. For example, we could
switch to siphash24() transparently.
For now, we still do a form basically djb2 hashing, albeit with
differing start seed.
Also add nm_hash_str() and nm_str_hash():
- nm_hash_str() is our own string hashing implementation
- nm_str_hash() is our own string implementation, but with a
GHashFunc signature, suitable to pass it to g_hash_table_new().
Also, it has this name in order to remind you of g_str_hash(),
which it is replacing.
"nm-utils/nm-shared-utils.h" shall contain utility function without other
dependencies. It is intended to be used by other projects as-is.
nm_utils_random_bytes() requires getrandom() and a HAVE_GETRANDOM configure
check. That makes it more cumbersome to re-use "nm-shared-utils.h", in
cases where you don't care about nm_utils_random_bytes().
Split nm_utils_random_bytes() out to a separate file.
Same for hash utils, which depend on nm_utils_random_bytes(). Also, hash
utils will eventually be extended to use siphash24.
