Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: ctr - avoid VLA use

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Mar 23 2018 - 11:37:12 EST


On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:18:58PM +0100, Salvatore Mesoraca wrote:
>
> +#define MAX_BLOCKSIZE 16
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
> +#define MAX_ALIGNMASK 15
> +#else
> +#define MAX_ALIGNMASK 0
> +#endif
> +

Hmm, this won't work. Just because you have efficient unaligned
access in general doesn't mean that every implementation can live
with unaligned access. In particular, on x86 there are quite a
few implementations that require alignment or they will fault.

So please just make it 15 unconditionally.

Thanks,
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