From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com, dhowells@redhat.com,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unaligned access in pkcs7_verify
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 21:39:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151013133936.GB7267@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151012.070634.1545145319630456859.davem@davemloft.net>
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 07:06:34AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 21:32:09 +0800
>
> > The sparc sha algorithms themselves need to declare the alignment
> > that they require. Currently they claim to be able to handle any
> > alignment which appears to not be the case.
>
> The sparc SHA assembler can handle arbitrary alignment.
Right. The warnings that originated in sha1_sparc64 are probably
just the result of an unaligned desc structure caused by the bug
in pkcs7_verify.
Thanks for the confirmation.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-13 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-02 14:00 unaligned access in pkcs7_verify Sowmini Varadhan
2015-10-08 13:15 ` Herbert Xu
2015-10-08 14:43 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-10-12 13:32 ` Herbert Xu
2015-10-12 13:46 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-10-12 14:06 ` David Miller
2015-10-13 13:39 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2015-10-13 13:29 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-10-13 13:36 ` Herbert Xu
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