On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 09:05:28AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I'm pretty sure we have random asm code that may not maintain a > 16-byte stack alignment when it calls other code (including, in some > cases, calling C code). > > So I'm not at all convinced that this is a good idea. We shouldn't > expect 16-byte alignment to be something trustworthy.
So what if we audited all the x86 assembly code to fix this? Would it then be acceptable to do a 16-byte aligned stack? On the face of it it doesn't seem to be a huge amount of code assuming they mostly live under arch/x86. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> 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 majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
