Re: [PATCH] crypto: aesni-intel - fix unaligned cbc decrypt for x86-32

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On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 01:43:08AM +0200, Mathias Krause wrote:
> The 32 bit variant of cbc(aes) decrypt is using instructions requiring
> 128 bit aligned memory locations but fails to ensure this constraint in
> the code. Fix this by loading the data into intermediate registers with
> load unaligned instructions.
> 
> This fixes reported general protection faults related to aesni.
> 
> References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43223
> Reported-by: Daniel <garkein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx [v2.6.39+]
> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Have measured this against increasing alignmask to 15?

Thanks,
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