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[3.6] bpo-40791: Make compare_digest more constant-time. (GH-23438) #23767

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The existing volatile left/right pointers guarantee that the reads will all occur, but does not guarantee that they will be used. So a compiler can still short-circuit the loop, saving e.g. the overhead of doing the xors and especially the overhead of the data dependency between result and the reads. That would change performance depending on where the first unequal byte occurs. This change removes that optimization.

(This is change GH-1 from https://bugs.python.org/issue40791 .)
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The existing volatile `left`/`right` pointers guarantee that the reads will all occur, but does not guarantee that they will be _used_. So a compiler can still short-circuit the loop, saving e.g. the overhead of doing the xors and especially the overhead of the data dependency between `result` and the reads. That would change performance depending on where the first unequal byte occurs. This change removes that optimization.

(This is change GH-1 from https://bugs.python.org/issue40791 .)
(cherry picked from commit 3172936)

Co-authored-by: Devin Jeanpierre <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit db95802)

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@miss-islington and @benjaminp: Status check is done, and it's a success ✅ .

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@miss-islington and @benjaminp: Status check is done, and it's a success ✅ .

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@ned-deily ned-deily merged commit 8bef9eb into python:3.6 Dec 14, 2020
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rickprice pushed a commit to ActiveState/cpython that referenced this pull request Apr 11, 2024
bpo-40791: Make compare_digest more constant-time. (pythonGH-23438) (pythonGH-23767)

The existing volatile `left`/`right` pointers guarantee that the reads will all occur, but does not guarantee that they will be _used_. So a compiler can still short-circuit the loop, saving e.g. the overhead of doing the xors and especially the overhead of the data dependency between `result` and the reads. That would change performance depending on where the first unequal byte occurs. This change removes that optimization.

(This is change GH-1 from https://bugs.python.org/issue40791 .)
(cherry picked from commit 3172936)

Co-authored-by: Devin Jeanpierre <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 8bef9eb)
icanhasmath pushed a commit to ActiveState/cpython that referenced this pull request Jun 26, 2024
bpo-40791: Make compare_digest more constant-time. (pythonGH-23438) (pythonGH-23767)

The existing volatile `left`/`right` pointers guarantee that the reads will all occur, but does not guarantee that they will be _used_. So a compiler can still short-circuit the loop, saving e.g. the overhead of doing the xors and especially the overhead of the data dependency between `result` and the reads. That would change performance depending on where the first unequal byte occurs. This change removes that optimization.

(This is change GH-1 from https://bugs.python.org/issue40791 .)
(cherry picked from commit 3172936)

Co-authored-by: Devin Jeanpierre <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 8bef9eb)
rickprice pushed a commit to ActiveState/cpython that referenced this pull request Jun 26, 2024
bpo-40791: Make compare_digest more constant-time. (pythonGH-23438) (pythonGH-23767)

The existing volatile `left`/`right` pointers guarantee that the reads will all occur, but does not guarantee that they will be _used_. So a compiler can still short-circuit the loop, saving e.g. the overhead of doing the xors and especially the overhead of the data dependency between `result` and the reads. That would change performance depending on where the first unequal byte occurs. This change removes that optimization.

(This is change GH-1 from https://bugs.python.org/issue40791 .)
(cherry picked from commit 3172936)

Co-authored-by: Devin Jeanpierre <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 8bef9eb)
icanhasmath pushed a commit to ActiveState/cpython that referenced this pull request Jul 30, 2024
bpo-40791: Make compare_digest more constant-time. (pythonGH-23438) (pythonGH-23767)

The existing volatile `left`/`right` pointers guarantee that the reads will all occur, but does not guarantee that they will be _used_. So a compiler can still short-circuit the loop, saving e.g. the overhead of doing the xors and especially the overhead of the data dependency between `result` and the reads. That would change performance depending on where the first unequal byte occurs. This change removes that optimization.

(This is change GH-1 from https://bugs.python.org/issue40791 .)
(cherry picked from commit 3172936)

Co-authored-by: Devin Jeanpierre <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 8bef9eb)
icanhasmath pushed a commit to ActiveState/cpython that referenced this pull request Jul 30, 2024
bpo-40791: Make compare_digest more constant-time. (pythonGH-23438) (pythonGH-23767)

The existing volatile `left`/`right` pointers guarantee that the reads will all occur, but does not guarantee that they will be _used_. So a compiler can still short-circuit the loop, saving e.g. the overhead of doing the xors and especially the overhead of the data dependency between `result` and the reads. That would change performance depending on where the first unequal byte occurs. This change removes that optimization.

(This is change GH-1 from https://bugs.python.org/issue40791 .)
(cherry picked from commit 3172936)

Co-authored-by: Devin Jeanpierre <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 8bef9eb)
icanhasmath pushed a commit to ActiveState/cpython that referenced this pull request Aug 6, 2024
bpo-40791: Make compare_digest more constant-time. (pythonGH-23438) (pythonGH-23767)

The existing volatile `left`/`right` pointers guarantee that the reads will all occur, but does not guarantee that they will be _used_. So a compiler can still short-circuit the loop, saving e.g. the overhead of doing the xors and especially the overhead of the data dependency between `result` and the reads. That would change performance depending on where the first unequal byte occurs. This change removes that optimization.

(This is change GH-1 from https://bugs.python.org/issue40791 .)
(cherry picked from commit 3172936)

Co-authored-by: Devin Jeanpierre <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 8bef9eb)
icanhasmath pushed a commit to ActiveState/cpython that referenced this pull request Aug 7, 2024
bpo-40791: Make compare_digest more constant-time. (pythonGH-23438) (pythonGH-23767)

The existing volatile `left`/`right` pointers guarantee that the reads will all occur, but does not guarantee that they will be _used_. So a compiler can still short-circuit the loop, saving e.g. the overhead of doing the xors and especially the overhead of the data dependency between `result` and the reads. That would change performance depending on where the first unequal byte occurs. This change removes that optimization.

(This is change GH-1 from https://bugs.python.org/issue40791 .)
(cherry picked from commit 3172936)

Co-authored-by: Devin Jeanpierre <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 8bef9eb)
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