diff --git a/include/crypto/hash.h b/include/crypto/hash.h
index af2ff31ff619..13f8a6a54ca8 100644
--- a/include/crypto/hash.h
+++ b/include/crypto/hash.h
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ struct ahash_alg {
 
 struct shash_desc {
 	struct crypto_shash *tfm;
-	void *__ctx[] CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR;
+	void *__ctx[] __aligned(ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN);
 };
 
 #define HASH_MAX_DIGESTSIZE	 64
@@ -162,9 +162,9 @@ struct shash_desc {
 
 #define HASH_MAX_STATESIZE	512
 
-#define SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK(shash, ctx)				  \
-	char __##shash##_desc[sizeof(struct shash_desc) +	  \
-		HASH_MAX_DESCSIZE] CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR; \
+#define SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK(shash, ctx)					     \
+	char __##shash##_desc[sizeof(struct shash_desc) + HASH_MAX_DESCSIZE] \
+		__aligned(__alignof__(struct shash_desc));		     \
 	struct shash_desc *shash = (struct shash_desc *)__##shash##_desc
 
 /**
diff --git a/include/linux/crypto.h b/include/linux/crypto.h
index ef90e07c9635..e3abd1f8646a 100644
--- a/include/linux/crypto.h
+++ b/include/linux/crypto.h
@@ -151,9 +151,12 @@
  * The macro CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR (along with the void * type in the actual
  * declaration) is used to ensure that the crypto_tfm context structure is
  * aligned correctly for the given architecture so that there are no alignment
- * faults for C data types.  In particular, this is required on platforms such
- * as arm where pointers are 32-bit aligned but there are data types such as
- * u64 which require 64-bit alignment.
+ * faults for C data types.  On architectures that support non-cache coherent
+ * DMA, such as ARM or arm64, it also takes into account the minimal alignment
+ * that is required to ensure that the context struct member does not share any
+ * cachelines with the rest of the struct. This is needed to ensure that cache
+ * maintenance for non-coherent DMA (cache invalidation in particular) does not
+ * affect data that may be accessed by the CPU concurrently.
  */
 #define CRYPTO_MINALIGN ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN