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    siphash: use _unaligned version by default · f7e5b9bf
    Arnd Bergmann authored
    On ARM v6 and later, we define CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
    because the ordinary load/store instructions (ldr, ldrh, ldrb) can
    tolerate any misalignment of the memory address. However, load/store
    double and load/store multiple instructions (ldrd, ldm) may still only
    be used on memory addresses that are 32-bit aligned, and so we have to
    use the CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS macro with care, or we
    may end up with a severe performance hit due to alignment traps that
    require fixups by the kernel. Testing shows that this currently happens
    with clang-13 but not gcc-11. In theory, any compiler version can
    produce this bug or other problems, as we are dealing with undefined
    behavior in C99 even on architectures that support this in hardware,
    see also https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100363.
    
    Fortunately, the get_unaligned() accessors do the right thing: when
    building for ARMv6 or later, the compiler will emit unaligned accesses
    using the ordinary load/store instructions (but avoid the ones that
    require 32-bit alignment). When building for older ARM, those accessors
    will emit the appropriate sequence of ldrb/mov/orr instructions. And on
    architectures that can truly tolerate any kind of misalignment, the
    get_unaligned() accessors resolve to the leXX_to_cpup accessors that
    operate on aligned addresses.
    
    Since the compiler will in fact emit ldrd or ldm instructions when
    building this code for ARM v6 or later, the solution is to use the
    unaligned accessors unconditionally on architectures where this is
    known to be fast. The _aligned version of the hash function is
    however still needed to get the best performance on architectures
    that cannot do any unaligned access in hardware.
    
    This new version avoids the undefined behavior and should produce
    the fastest hash on all architectures we support.
    
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20181008211554.5355-4-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org/
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/CAK8P3a2KfmmGDbVHULWevB0hv71P2oi2ZCHEAqT=8dQfa0=cqQ@mail.gmail.com/Reported-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
    Fixes: 2c956a60 ("siphash: add cryptographically secure PRF")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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