On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 04:52:59PM -0700, Victoria Milhoan wrote: > From: Steve Cornelius <steve.cornelius@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > The hwrng output buffers (2) are cast inside of a a struct (caam_rng_ctx) > allocated in one DMA-tagged region. While the kernel's heap allocator > should place the overall struct on a cacheline aligned boundary, the 2 > buffers contained within may not necessarily align. Consenquently, the ends > of unaligned buffers may not fully flush, and if so, stale data will be left > behind, resulting in small repeating patterns. Applied to crypto with stable CC. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
