Re: [PATCH] crypto: fix key alignment in tcrypt

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:11:55PM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> Force 32-bit alignment on keys in tcrypt test vectors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
> 
> diff --git a/crypto/tcrypt.h b/crypto/tcrypt.h
> index 733d07e..050f852 100644
> --- a/crypto/tcrypt.h
> +++ b/crypto/tcrypt.h
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ struct hash_testvec {
>  	char digest[MAX_DIGEST_SIZE];
>  	unsigned char np;
>  	unsigned char tap[MAX_TAP];
> -	char key[128]; /* only used with keyed hash algorithms */
> +	char key[128] __attribute__((__aligned__(4))); /* only used with keyed hash algorithms */
>  	unsigned char ksize;
>  };
>  
> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ struct hmac_testvec {
>  struct cipher_testvec {
>  	unsigned char fail;
>  	unsigned char wk; /* weak key flag */
> -	char key[MAX_KEYLEN];
> +	char key[MAX_KEYLEN] __attribute__((__aligned__(4)));
>  	unsigned char klen;
>  	char iv[MAX_IVLEN];
>  	char input[48];

Wouldn't it be better to simply move this to the head of the structure?

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