Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function

Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-15T15:53:20Z

On 15.12.2016 16:41, David Laight wrote:
> Try (retyped):
>
> echo 'struct { long a; long long b; } s; int bar { return sizeof s; }' >foo.c
> gcc [-m32] -O2 -S foo.c; cat foo.s
>
> And look at what is generated.

I used __alignof__(unsigned long long) with -m32.

>> Right now ipv6 addresses have an alignment of 4. So we couldn't even
>> naturally pass them to siphash but would need to copy them around, which
>> I feel like a source of bugs.
>
> That is more of a problem on systems that don't support misaligned accesses.
> Reading the 64bit values with two explicit 32bit reads would work.
> I think you can get gcc to do that by adding an aligned(4) attribute to the
> structure member.

Yes, and that is actually my fear, because we support those
architectures. I can't comment on that as I don't understand enough of this.

If someone finds a way to cause misaligned reads on a small box this
seems (maybe depending on sysctls they get fixed up or panic) to be a
much bigger issue than having a hash DoS.

Thanks,
Hannes