On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, David Sterba wrote: > As a user of the allocator interface in filesystem, I'd like to see a > more generic way to address the alignment guarantees so we don't have to > apply workarounds like 3acd48507dc43eeeb each time we find that we > missed something. (Where 'missed' might be another sort of weird memory > corruption hard to trigger.)
The alignment guarantees are clearly documented and objects are misaligned in debugging kernels. Looking at 3acd48507dc43eeeb:Looks like no one tested that patch with a debug kernel or full debugging on until it hit mainline. Not good. The consequence for the lack of proper testing is to make the production kernel contain the debug measures?
