linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] SLOB breaks Crypto

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Date:	Wed, 19 May 2010 08:14:28 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, penberg@...helsinki.fi,
	mpm@...enic.com, ken@...elabs.ch, geert@...ux-m68k.org,
	michael-dev@...i-braun.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, anemo@....ocn.ne.jp
Subject: Re: [BUG] SLOB breaks Crypto

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 11:05 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> While this problem wouldn't have occurred, we would instead have
> data corruption/alignment faults on architectures such as sparc32
> or ARM that require 64-bit alignment for 64-bit objects.

Yeah, but that's what ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN is for.

ARM gets this right, and Dave has already said he's going to fix sparc.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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