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Commit 412c98c1 authored by Steve Cornelius's avatar Steve Cornelius Committed by Herbert Xu
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crypto: caam - fix RNG buffer cache alignment



The hwrng output buffers (2) are cast inside of a a struct (caam_rng_ctx)
allocated in one DMA-tagged region. While the kernel's heap allocator
should place the overall struct on a cacheline aligned boundary, the 2
buffers contained within may not necessarily align. Consenquently, the ends
of unaligned buffers may not fully flush, and if so, stale data will be left
behind, resulting in small repeating patterns.

This fix aligns the buffers inside the struct.

Note that not all of the data inside caam_rng_ctx necessarily needs to be
DMA-tagged, only the buffers themselves require this. However, a fix would
incur the expense of error-handling bloat in the case of allocation failure.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve Cornelius <steve.cornelius@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVictoria Milhoan <vicki.milhoan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
parent 6fd4b156
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