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Message-ID: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6DB023F4DA@AcuExch.aculab.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:51:16 +0000
From: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To: "'Jason A. Donenfeld'" <Jason@...c4.com>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Linus Torvalds
	<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com"
	<kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...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>, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 3/3] secure_seq: use fast&secure siphash instead of
 slow&insecure md5

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
> Sent: 14 December 2016 00:17
> This gives a clear speed and security improvement. Rather than manually
> filling MD5 buffers, we simply create a layout by a simple anonymous
> struct, for which gcc generates rather efficient code.
...
> +	const struct {
> +		struct in6_addr saddr;
> +		struct in6_addr daddr;
> +		__be16 sport;
> +		__be16 dport;
> +	} __packed combined = {
> +		.saddr = *(struct in6_addr *)saddr,
> +		.daddr = *(struct in6_addr *)daddr,
> +		.sport = sport,
> +		.dport = dport
> +	};

You need to look at the effect of marking this (and the other)
structures 'packed' on architectures like sparc64.

	David

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