>>>>> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 21:27:31 +1100, Herbert Xu <[email protected]> said:
>> This patch fixes some alignment problem on crypto modules.
herbert> Thanks for the patch. Please split this up and cc
herbert> [email protected].
OK, I'll send soon.
>> 1. Many cipher setkey functions load key words directly but the key
>> words might not be aligned. Enforce correct alignment in the
>> setkey wrapper.
herbert> This isn't right. The alignmask applies to
herbert> source/destination buffers only. The only requirement on the
herbert> key is that it must always be 32-bit aligned.
Thank you for clarification. The tcrypt module breaks this
requirement currently. I'll fix tcrypt.
>> 3. Some hash modules (and sha_transform() library function)
>> load/store data words directly. Use
>> get_unaligned()/put_unaligned() for them.
herbert> We should extend alignmask to cover this and handle it in the
herbert> digest layer.
OK, I'll try it. Thank you.
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Atsushi Nemoto
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