]> git.hungrycats.org Git - linux/commitdiff
random: properly align get_random_int_hash
authorEric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Thu, 5 May 2016 01:08:39 +0000 (21:08 -0400)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Fri, 19 Aug 2016 07:51:15 +0000 (09:51 +0200)
commit b1132deac01c2332d234fa821a70022796b79182 upstream.

get_random_long() reads from the get_random_int_hash array using an
unsigned long pointer.  For this code to be guaranteed correct on all
architectures, the array must be aligned to an unsigned long boundary.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
drivers/char/random.c

index f6b25db16791f5fdd125dc356915ebb12edb1c63..85e771c26488c17189b609a6ecd91bf1256a22dd 100644 (file)
@@ -1465,13 +1465,15 @@ int random_int_secret_init(void)
        return 0;
 }
 
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(__u32 [MD5_DIGEST_WORDS], get_random_int_hash)
+               __aligned(sizeof(unsigned long));
+
 /*
  * Get a random word for internal kernel use only. Similar to urandom but
  * with the goal of minimal entropy pool depletion. As a result, the random
  * value is not cryptographically secure but for several uses the cost of
  * depleting entropy is too high
  */
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(__u32 [MD5_DIGEST_WORDS], get_random_int_hash);
 unsigned int get_random_int(void)
 {
        __u32 *hash;