Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/crypto/sha256-mb: fix panic due to unaligned access

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On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 06:51:30PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> struct sha256_ctx_mgr allocated in sha256_mb_mod_init() via kzalloc()
> and later passed in sha256_mb_flusher_mgr_flush_avx2() function where
> instructions vmovdqa used to access the struct. vmovdqa requires
> 16-bytes aligned argument, but nothing guarantees that struct
> sha256_ctx_mgr will have that alignment. Unaligned vmovdqa will
> generate GP fault.
> 
> Fix this by replacing vmovdqa with vmovdqu which doesn't have alignment
> requirements.
> 
> Fixes: a377c6b1876e ("crypto: sha256-mb - submit/flush routines for AVX2")
> Reported-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Both patches applied.  Thanks.
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