Am Montag, 13. Juni 2016, 17:37:14 schrieb Herbert Xu: Hi Herbert,
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 07:56:57AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > Hardware cipher implementation may require aligned buffers. All buffers > > that potentially are processed with a cipher are now aligned. > > > > At the time of the allocation of the memory, we have not yet allocated > > the cipher implementations. Hence, we cannot obtain the alignmask for > > the used cipher yet. Therefore, the DRBG code uses an alignment which > > should satisfy all cipher implementations. > > Why not change it so that you allocate these buffers after you > have obtained the tfm object? An alignment of 8 doesn't work for > padlock at least, but then again the padlock driver doesn't support > CTR so it's no big deal. > > I think if you are going to worry about alignment then let's do it > properly and use the actual alignment required. Will do. > > Cheers, Ciao Stephan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
