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commit e1b2d980f03b833442768c1987d5ad0b9a58cfe7 upstream. The Michael MIC driver uses the cra_alignmask to ensure that pointers presented to its update and finup/final methods are 32-bit aligned. However, due to the way the shash API works, this is no guarantee that the 32-bit reads occurring in the update method are also aligned, as the size of the buffer presented to update may be of uneven length. For instance, an update() of 3 bytes followed by a misaligned update() of 4 or more bytes will result in a misaligned access using an accessor that is not suitable for this. On most architectures, this does not matter, and so setting the cra_alignmask is pointless. On architectures where this does matter, setting the cra_alignmask does not actually solve the problem. So let's get rid of the cra_alignmask, and use unaligned accessors instead, where appropriate. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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