Re: [PATCH] crypto: cmac - fix alignment of 'consts'

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 10:15 -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> The per-transform 'consts' array is accessed as __be64 in
> crypto_cmac_digest_setkey() but was only guaranteed to be aligned to
> __alignof__(long).  Fix this by aligning it to __alignof__(__be64).
[]
> diff --git a/crypto/cmac.c b/crypto/cmac.c
[]
> @@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ static int crypto_cmac_digest_setkey(struct crypto_shash *parent,
>  	unsigned long alignmask = crypto_shash_alignmask(parent);
>  	struct cmac_tfm_ctx *ctx = crypto_shash_ctx(parent);
>  	unsigned int bs = crypto_shash_blocksize(parent);
> -	__be64 *consts = PTR_ALIGN((void *)ctx->ctx, alignmask + 1);
> +	__be64 *consts = PTR_ALIGN((void *)ctx->ctx,
> +				   (alignmask | (__alignof__(__be64) - 1)) + 1);

Using a bitwise or looks very odd there.  Perhaps:

		min(alignmask + 1, __alignof__(__be64))