Use 16 byte alignment for all allocations in the mlock allocator

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/alloc/locking_allocator/locking_allocator.cpp b/src/lib/alloc/locking_allocator/locking_allocator.cpp
index ec294d8f0..c145cfd7f 100644
--- a/src/lib/alloc/locking_allocator/locking_allocator.cpp
+++ b/src/lib/alloc/locking_allocator/locking_allocator.cpp
@@ -18,12 +18,6 @@ namespace Botan {
 
 namespace {
 
-/**
-* Requests for objects of sizeof(T) will be aligned at
-* sizeof(T)*ALIGNMENT_MULTIPLE bytes.
-*/
-const size_t ALIGNMENT_MULTIPLE = 2;
-
 size_t reset_mlock_limit(size_t max_req)
    {
 #if defined(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK)
@@ -104,7 +98,7 @@ void* mlock_allocator::allocate(size_t num_elems, size_t elem_size)
       return nullptr;
 
    const size_t n = num_elems * elem_size;
-   const size_t alignment = ALIGNMENT_MULTIPLE * elem_size;
+   const size_t alignment = 16;
 
    if(n / elem_size != num_elems)
       return nullptr; // overflow!