linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.37-rc7: Regression: b43: crashes in hwrng

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Date:	Wed, 5 Jan 2011 11:19:40 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:	Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@...Ilmenau.DE>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@...tech.com>,
	Michal Ludvig <michal@...ix.cz>
Subject: Re: 2.6.37-rc7: Regression: b43: crashes in hwrng_register()

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 06:14:16PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>
> If I didn't get lost in expanding all those macros, I think the above can end up
> with what is essentially a negative value for the index of buf. Shouldn't the
> right-hand side of the statement be
> 
> (u32 *)PTR_ALIGN(&buf[PADLOCK_ALIGNMENT], PADLOCK_ALIGNMENT);
> 
> That resolves to an index for buf from 0 to (PADLOCK_ALIGNMENT - 1).

PTR_ALIGN (and ALIGN) rounds up, not down.

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