[PATCH 1/3] crypto: memneq - use unaligned accessors for aligned fast path

[Ard Biesheuvel]

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.

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.

So switch to the unaligned accessors for the aligned fast path. This
will create the exact same code on architectures that can really
tolerate any kind of misalignment, and generate code for ARMv6+ that
avoids load/store instructions that trigger alignment faults.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>
---
 crypto/memneq.c | 24 ++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crypto/memneq.c b/crypto/memneq.c
index afed1bd16aee..0f46a6150f22 100644
--- a/crypto/memneq.c
+++ b/crypto/memneq.c
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <crypto/algapi.h>
+#include <asm/unaligned.h>
 
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_CRYPTO_MEMNEQ
 
@@ -71,7 +72,10 @@ __crypto_memneq_generic(const void *a, const void *b, size_t 
size)
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS)
        while (size >= sizeof(unsigned long)) {
-               neq |= *(unsigned long *)a ^ *(unsigned long *)b;
+               unsigned long const *p = a;
+               unsigned long const *q = b;
+
+               neq |= get_unaligned(p) ^ get_unaligned(q);
                OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(neq);
                a += sizeof(unsigned long);
                b += sizeof(unsigned long);
@@ -95,18 +99,24 @@ static inline unsigned long __crypto_memneq_16(const void 
*a, const void *b)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
        if (sizeof(unsigned long) == 8) {
-               neq |= *(unsigned long *)(a)   ^ *(unsigned long *)(b);
+               unsigned long const *p = a;
+               unsigned long const *q = b;
+
+               neq |= get_unaligned(p++) ^ get_unaligned(q++);
                OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(neq);
-               neq |= *(unsigned long *)(a+8) ^ *(unsigned long *)(b+8);
+               neq |= get_unaligned(p) ^ get_unaligned(q);
                OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(neq);
        } else if (sizeof(unsigned int) == 4) {
-               neq |= *(unsigned int *)(a)    ^ *(unsigned int *)(b);
+               unsigned int const *p = a;
+               unsigned int const *q = b;
+
+               neq |= get_unaligned(p++) ^ get_unaligned(q++);
                OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(neq);
-               neq |= *(unsigned int *)(a+4)  ^ *(unsigned int *)(b+4);
+               neq |= get_unaligned(p++) ^ get_unaligned(q++);
                OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(neq);
-               neq |= *(unsigned int *)(a+8)  ^ *(unsigned int *)(b+8);
+               neq |= get_unaligned(p++) ^ get_unaligned(q++);
                OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(neq);
-               neq |= *(unsigned int *)(a+12) ^ *(unsigned int *)(b+12);
+               neq |= get_unaligned(p) ^ get_unaligned(q);
                OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(neq);
        } else
 #endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS */
-- 
2.11.0