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| author | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2005-07-06 13:52:09 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2005-07-06 13:52:09 -0700 |
| commit | 95477377995aefa2ec1654a9a3777bd57ea99146 (patch) | |
| tree | 7aa4d6173de13c81c2fa0e4d2f9e0de22e141b6a /crypto/api.c | |
| parent | 40725181b74be6b0e3bdc8c05bd1e0b9873ec5cc (diff) | |
| download | lwn-95477377995aefa2ec1654a9a3777bd57ea99146.tar.gz lwn-95477377995aefa2ec1654a9a3777bd57ea99146.zip | |
[CRYPTO] Add alignmask for low-level cipher implementations
The VIA Padlock device requires the input and output buffers to
be aligned on 16-byte boundaries. This patch adds the alignmask
attribute for low-level cipher implementations to indicate their
alignment requirements.
The mid-level crypt() function will copy the input/output buffers
if they are not aligned correctly before they are passed to the
low-level implementation.
Strictly speaking, some of the software implementations require
the buffers to be aligned on 4-byte boundaries as they do 32-bit
loads. However, it is not clear whether it is better to copy
the buffers or pay the penalty for unaligned loads/stores.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/api.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/api.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/api.c b/crypto/api.c index 394169a8577d..f55856b21992 100644 --- a/crypto/api.c +++ b/crypto/api.c @@ -168,6 +168,12 @@ int crypto_register_alg(struct crypto_alg *alg) { int ret = 0; struct crypto_alg *q; + + if (alg->cra_alignmask & (alg->cra_alignmask + 1)) + return -EINVAL; + + if (alg->cra_alignmask > PAGE_SIZE) + return -EINVAL; down_write(&crypto_alg_sem); |