* Re: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function
@ 2016-12-15 21:16 Jason A. Donenfeld
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From: Jason A. Donenfeld @ 2016-12-15 21:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linus Torvalds
Cc: kernel-hardening, Hannes Frederic Sowa, David Laight, Netdev,
Jean-Philippe Aumasson, LKML, Linux Crypto Mailing List,
Daniel J . Bernstein, Eric Biggers
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> I think you can/should just use the natural alignment for "u64".
>
> For architectures that need 8-byte alignment, u64 will already be
> properly aligned. For architectures (like x86-32) that only need
> 4-byte alignment, you get it.
I should have added mention of that with my previous email. For the
parameters that are always a multiple of u64 -- namely, the key -- I
now do that in v5 of the patchset. So this is already done.
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