Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: x86/chacha20 - Manually align stack buffer

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On 11 January 2017 at 12:28, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:14:24PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>
>> I think the old code was fine, actually:
>>
>> u32 *state, state_buf[16 + (CHACHA20_STATE_ALIGN / sizeof(u32)) - 1];
>>
>> ends up allocating 16 + 3 *words* == 64 + 12 bytes , which given the
>> guaranteed 4 byte alignment is sufficient for ensuring the pointer can
>> be 16 byte aligned.
>
> Ah yes you're right, it's a u32.
>
>> So [16 + 2] should be sufficient here
>
> Here's an updated version.
>
> ---8<---
> The kernel on x86-64 cannot use gcc attribute align to align to
> a 16-byte boundary.  This patch reverts to the old way of aligning
> it by hand.
>
> Fixes: 9ae433bc79f9 ("crypto: chacha20 - convert generic and...")
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/chacha20_glue.c b/arch/x86/crypto/chacha20_glue.c
> index 78f75b0..1e6af1b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/crypto/chacha20_glue.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/chacha20_glue.c
> @@ -67,10 +67,13 @@ static int chacha20_simd(struct skcipher_request *req)
>  {
>         struct crypto_skcipher *tfm = crypto_skcipher_reqtfm(req);
>         struct chacha20_ctx *ctx = crypto_skcipher_ctx(tfm);
> -       u32 state[16] __aligned(CHACHA20_STATE_ALIGN);
> +       u32 *state, state_buf[16 + 2] __aligned(8);
>         struct skcipher_walk walk;
>         int err;
>
> +       BUILD_BUG_ON(CHACHA20_STATE_ALIGN != 16);
> +       state = PTR_ALIGN(state_buf + 0, CHACHA20_STATE_ALIGN);
> +
>         if (req->cryptlen <= CHACHA20_BLOCK_SIZE || !may_use_simd())
>                 return crypto_chacha20_crypt(req);
>

Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
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