From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:14:46 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: lib/chkhash.c: is_valid_hash(): Update comment
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lib/chkhash.c: is_valid_hash(): Update comment

This checks the entire shadow(5) 2nd field, which is more than just
a hash.

Reported-by: Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias@stoeckmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/lib/chkhash.c b/lib/chkhash.c
index d0a8dc011..1723f862c 100644
--- a/lib/chkhash.c
+++ b/lib/chkhash.c
@@ -31,9 +31,7 @@ match_regex(const char *pattern, const char *string)
 
 
 /*
- * is_valid_hash - check if the given string is a valid password hash
- *
- * Returns true if the string appears to be a valid hash, false otherwise.
+ * is_valid_hash - check if the string is a valid shadow(5) 2nd field.
  *
  * regex from: https://man.archlinux.org/man/crypt.5.en
  */