[PATCH v3 06/10] crypto: arm64/chacha20 - remove cra_alignmask

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Sat Jan 28 15:25:35 PST 2017


Remove the unnecessary alignmask: it is much more efficient to deal with
the misalignment in the core algorithm than relying on the crypto API to
copy the data to a suitably aligned buffer.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm64/crypto/chacha20-neon-glue.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/crypto/chacha20-neon-glue.c b/arch/arm64/crypto/chacha20-neon-glue.c
index a7f2337d46cf..a7cd575ea223 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/crypto/chacha20-neon-glue.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/crypto/chacha20-neon-glue.c
@@ -93,7 +93,6 @@ static struct skcipher_alg alg = {
 	.base.cra_priority	= 300,
 	.base.cra_blocksize	= 1,
 	.base.cra_ctxsize	= sizeof(struct chacha20_ctx),
-	.base.cra_alignmask	= 1,
 	.base.cra_module	= THIS_MODULE,
 
 	.min_keysize		= CHACHA20_KEY_SIZE,
-- 
2.7.4




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