[PATCH 07/10] crypto: Use ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN instead of ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
Herbert Xu
herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Fri Apr 15 00:51:54 PDT 2022
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 09:49:12AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I understand what would go wrong if that assumption no
> longer holds.
It's very simple, we don't do anything to the pointer returned
by kmalloc before returning it as a tfm or other object with
an alignment of CRYPTO_MINALIGN. IOW if kmalloc starts returning
pointers that are not aligned to CRYPTO_MINALIGN then we'd be
lying to the compiler.
Cheers,
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