On Wed, 7 Jan 2026 at 06:22, Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org wrote:

__cacheline_aligned puts the data in the ".data..cacheline_aligned" section, which isn't marked read-only i.e. it doesn't receive MMU protection. Replace it with ____cacheline_aligned which does the right thing and just aligns the data while keeping it in ".rodata".

Fixes: b5e0b032b6c3 ("crypto: aes - add generic time invariant AES cipher") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Qingfang Deng dqfext@gmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260105074712.498-1-dqfext@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org

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This patch is targeting libcrypto-fixes

lib/crypto/aes.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Oops

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org

diff --git a/lib/crypto/aes.c b/lib/crypto/aes.c index b57fda3460f1..102aaa76bc8d 100644 --- a/lib/crypto/aes.c +++ b/lib/crypto/aes.c @@ -11,11 +11,11 @@

/*

• Emit the sbox as volatile const to prevent the compiler from doing
• constant folding on sbox references involving fixed indexes.

*/ -static volatile const u8 __cacheline_aligned aes_sbox[] = { +static volatile const u8 ____cacheline_aligned aes_sbox[] = { 0x63, 0x7c, 0x77, 0x7b, 0xf2, 0x6b, 0x6f, 0xc5, 0x30, 0x01, 0x67, 0x2b, 0xfe, 0xd7, 0xab, 0x76, 0xca, 0x82, 0xc9, 0x7d, 0xfa, 0x59, 0x47, 0xf0, 0xad, 0xd4, 0xa2, 0xaf, 0x9c, 0xa4, 0x72, 0xc0, 0xb7, 0xfd, 0x93, 0x26, 0x36, 0x3f, 0xf7, 0xcc, @@ -46,11 +46,11 @@ static volatile const u8 __cacheline_aligned aes_sbox[] = { 0x9b, 0x1e, 0x87, 0xe9, 0xce, 0x55, 0x28, 0xdf, 0x8c, 0xa1, 0x89, 0x0d, 0xbf, 0xe6, 0x42, 0x68, 0x41, 0x99, 0x2d, 0x0f, 0xb0, 0x54, 0xbb, 0x16, };

-static volatile const u8 __cacheline_aligned aes_inv_sbox[] = { +static volatile const u8 ____cacheline_aligned aes_inv_sbox[] = { 0x52, 0x09, 0x6a, 0xd5, 0x30, 0x36, 0xa5, 0x38, 0xbf, 0x40, 0xa3, 0x9e, 0x81, 0xf3, 0xd7, 0xfb, 0x7c, 0xe3, 0x39, 0x82, 0x9b, 0x2f, 0xff, 0x87, 0x34, 0x8e, 0x43, 0x44, 0xc4, 0xde, 0xe9, 0xcb, 0x54, 0x7b, 0x94, 0x32, 0xa6, 0xc2, 0x23, 0x3d,

base-commit: fdfa4339e805276a458a5df9d6caf0b43ad4c439

2.52.0