linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] hwrng: add mt67xx-rng driver

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Date:   Thu, 9 May 2019 22:54:46 +0800
From:   Neal Liu <neal.liu@...iatek.com>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:     Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>, <mpm@...enic.com>,
        <robh+dt@...nel.org>, <mark.rutland@....com>,
        <matthias.bgg@...il.com>, <wsd_upstream@...iatek.com>,
        <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <Crystal.Guo@...iatek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] hwrng: add mt67xx-rng driver

On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 13:26 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 06:35:37PM +0800, Neal Liu wrote:
> > Hi Stephan,
> > 	We think the cast is fine, and it cannot guarantee the buf is
> > word-align.
> > 	I reference multiple rng driver's implementation and found it's common
> > usage for this. So it might be general usage for community. Is there any
> > suggestion that is more appropriate?
> 
> If you don't know whether it's unaligned or not then you should
> do an unaligned operation.

Hi Stephan/Herbert,
	My mistake. This buffer is allocated by kmalloc with larger than 32
bytes. So yes, it's word-align for sure.
	reference:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c#L590

	Thanks
Best Regards,
-Neal Liu