On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:22:15AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > > Actually, the breakage is introduced by the patch Herbert refers to > > > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9468391/ > > > > where the state is replaced by a simple > > > > u32 state[16] __aligned(CHACHA20_STATE_ALIGN); > > > > which seemed harmless enough to me. So the code above works fine. > > So how about just the one-line patch of adding the > force_align_arg_pointer? Would that solve the problem? It probably does. However, this is too error-prone. Surely you can't expect random kernel developers to know to add this force_align_arg_pointer every time they try to align a stack variable to 16 bytes? Cheers, -- 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
