Re: 2.6.13rc3: crypto horribly broken on all 64bit archs

From: David S. Miller
Date: Mon Jul 18 2005 - 15:25:18 EST


From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:45:54 +1000

> On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 02:20:21PM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
> >
> > The compiler first does ~((a)-1)) and then expands the unsigned int to
> > unsigned long for the & operation. So we end up with only the lower 32
> > bits of the address. Who did smoke what to do this? Patch attached.
>
> Thanks for the patch Andreas. A similar patch will be in the
> mainline kernel as soon as everybody is back home from Canada.

Yes, the fix is in my tree and will make it's way upstream
as soon as possible.
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