Re: 2.6.37-rc7: Regression: b43: crashes in hwrng_register()

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Tue Jan 04 2011 - 19:19:51 EST


On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 06:14:16PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>
> If I didn't get lost in expanding all those macros, I think the above can end up
> with what is essentially a negative value for the index of buf. Shouldn't the
> right-hand side of the statement be
>
> (u32 *)PTR_ALIGN(&buf[PADLOCK_ALIGNMENT], PADLOCK_ALIGNMENT);
>
> That resolves to an index for buf from 0 to (PADLOCK_ALIGNMENT - 1).

PTR_ALIGN (and ALIGN) rounds up, not down.

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