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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:56:30 +0000
From: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To: 'Hannes Frederic Sowa' <hannes@...essinduktion.org>, "Jason A. Donenfeld"
<Jason@...c4.com>
CC: Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com"
<kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Jean-Philippe Aumasson
<jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Linux Crypto Mailing List" <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>, "Daniel J .
Bernstein" <djb@...yp.to>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 1/4] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable
function
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa
> Sent: 15 December 2016 12:50
> On 15.12.2016 13:28, David Laight wrote:
> > From: Hannes Frederic Sowa
> >> Sent: 15 December 2016 12:23
> > ...
> >> Hmm? Even the Intel ABI expects alignment of unsigned long long to be 8
> >> bytes on 32 bit. Do you question that?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > The linux ABI for x86 (32 bit) only requires 32bit alignment for u64 (etc).
>
> Hmm, u64 on 32 bit is unsigned long long and not unsigned long. Thus I
> am actually not sure if the ABI would say anything about that (sorry
> also for my wrong statement above).
>
> Alignment requirement of unsigned long long on gcc with -m32 actually
> seem to be 8.
It depends on the architecture.
For x86 it is definitely 4.
It might be 8 for sparc, ppc and/or alpha.
David
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