Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jason A. Donenfeld" <> | Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2016 22:16:23 +0100 | Subject | Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function |
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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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