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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 11:26:44 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>, 
	"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>, George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>, 
	Scott Bauer <sbauer@....utah.edu>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, 
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
	Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com>, "Daniel J . Bernstein" <djb@...yp.to>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Hmm, I don't think you can really do load_unaligned_zeropad() without first
> checking for 'left != 0'.

Right you are. If the allocation is at the end of a page, the 0-size
case would be entirely outside the page and there's no fixup.

Of course, that never happens in normal code, but DEBUG_PAGE_ALLOC can
trigger it.

              Linus

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