On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:30:23AM -0700, behanw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Behan Webster <behanw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Add a macro which replaces the use of a Variable Length Array In Struct (VLAIS) > with a C99 compliant equivalent. This macro instead allocates the appropriate > amount of memory using an char array. > > The new code can be compiled with both gcc and clang. > > struct shash_desc contains a flexible array member member ctx declared with > CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR, so sizeof(struct shash_desc) aligns the beginning > of the array declared after struct shash_desc with long long. > > No trailing padding is required because it is not a struct type that can > be used in an array. > > The CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR is required so that desc is aligned with long long > as would be the case for a struct containing a member with > CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR. > > Signed-off-by: Behan Webster <behanw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
