On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 07:02:28PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > Some generic implementations of vintage ciphers rely on alignmasks to > ensure that the input is presented with the right alignment. Given that > these are all C implementations, which may execute on architectures that > don't care about alignment in the first place, it is better to use the > unaligned accessors, which will deal with the misalignment in a way that > is appropriate for the architecture in question (and in many cases, this > means simply ignoring the misalignment, as the hardware doesn't care either) > > So fix this across a number of implementations. Patch #1 stands out because > michael_mic.c was broken in spite of the alignmask. Patch #2 removes tnepres > instead of updating it, given that there is no point in keeping it. > > The remaining patches all update generic ciphers that are outdated but still > used, and which are the only implementations available on most architectures > other than x86. > > > > Ard Biesheuvel (9): > crypto: michael_mic - fix broken misalignment handling > crypto: serpent - get rid of obsolete tnepres variant > crypto: serpent - use unaligned accessors instead of alignmask > crypto: blowfish - use unaligned accessors instead of alignmask > crypto: camellia - use unaligned accessors instead of alignmask > crypto: cast5 - use unaligned accessors instead of alignmask > crypto: cast6 - use unaligned accessors instead of alignmask > crypto: fcrypt - drop unneeded alignmask > crypto: twofish - use unaligned accessors instead of alignmask > > crypto/Kconfig | 3 +- > crypto/blowfish_generic.c | 23 ++-- > crypto/camellia_generic.c | 45 +++---- > crypto/cast5_generic.c | 23 ++-- > crypto/cast6_generic.c | 39 +++--- > crypto/fcrypt.c | 1 - > crypto/michael_mic.c | 31 ++--- > crypto/serpent_generic.c | 126 ++++---------------- > crypto/tcrypt.c | 6 +- > crypto/testmgr.c | 6 - > crypto/testmgr.h | 79 ------------ > crypto/twofish_generic.c | 11 +- > 12 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 303 deletions(-) All applied. Thanks. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
