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From: Michal Ludvig <michal@logix.cz>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [CRYPTO] padlock: Fix alignment after aes_ctx rearrange
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:14:15 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B6FDF7.2030801@logix.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B6FC90.2060501@logix.cz>

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Michal Ludvig wrote:
> Hi Herbert,
> 
> I just recently discovered that your patch that rearranges struct
> aes_ctx in padlock-aes.c breaks the alignment rules for xcrypt leading
> to GPF Oopses.
> 
> Note that *all* addresses passed to xcrypt must be 16-Bytes aligned for
> VIA C3 (including IV and Key - the latter one was not aligned and
> triggered this Oops).
> 
> As the rearrange patch made it to 2.6.18-rc1 it must be fixed before
> 2.6.18 is out. Attached is a patch.

Ehrm, ... now it is attached ;-)

Michal

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Subject: padlock: Fix alignment after aes_ctx rearrange

Herbert's patch 82062c72cd643c99a9e1c231270acbab986fd23f 
in cryptodev-2.6 tree breaks alignment rules for PadLock 
xcrypt instruction leading to General protection Oopses.

This patch fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Michal Ludvig <michal@logix.cz>

Index: linux-2.6.16.13-xenU/drivers/crypto/padlock-aes.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16.13-xenU.orig/drivers/crypto/padlock-aes.c
+++ linux-2.6.16.13-xenU/drivers/crypto/padlock-aes.c
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@
 #define AES_EXTENDED_KEY_SIZE	64	/* in uint32_t units */
 #define AES_EXTENDED_KEY_SIZE_B	(AES_EXTENDED_KEY_SIZE * sizeof(uint32_t))
 
+/* Whenever making any changes to the following
+ * structure *make sure* you keep E, d_data
+ * and cword aligned on 16 Bytes boundaries!!! */
 struct aes_ctx {
 	struct {
 		struct cword encrypt;
@@ -66,8 +69,10 @@ struct aes_ctx {
 	} cword;
 	u32 *D;
 	int key_length;
-	u32 E[AES_EXTENDED_KEY_SIZE];
-	u32 d_data[AES_EXTENDED_KEY_SIZE];
+	u32 E[AES_EXTENDED_KEY_SIZE]
+		__attribute__ ((__aligned__(PADLOCK_ALIGNMENT)));
+	u32 d_data[AES_EXTENDED_KEY_SIZE]
+		__attribute__ ((__aligned__(PADLOCK_ALIGNMENT)));
 };
 
 /* ====== Key management routines ====== */

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-14  2:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-14  2:08 [CRYPTO] padlock: Fix alignment after aes_ctx rearrange Michal Ludvig
2006-07-14  2:14 ` Michal Ludvig [this message]
2006-07-15  1:25 ` Herbert Xu

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