On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:30:23AM -0700, beh...@converseincode.com wrote:
> From: Behan Webster <beh...@converseincode.com>
> 
> Add a macro which replaces the use of a Variable Length Array In Struct 
> (VLAIS)
> with a C99 compliant equivalent. This macro instead allocates the appropriate
> amount of memory using an char array.
> 
> The new code can be compiled with both gcc and clang.
> 
> struct shash_desc contains a flexible array member member ctx declared with
> CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR, so sizeof(struct shash_desc) aligns the beginning
> of the array declared after struct shash_desc with long long.
> 
> No trailing padding is required because it is not a struct type that can
> be used in an array.
> 
> The CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR is required so that desc is aligned with long long
> as would be the case for a struct containing a member with
> CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Behan Webster <beh...@converseincode.com>

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au>

Thanks,
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