From: David Howells
> Sent: 20 February 2019 13:32
>
> From: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com>
>
> Align the payload of "user" and "logon" keys so that users of the
> keyrings service can access it as a struct that requires more than
> 2-byte alignment. fscrypt currently does this which results in the read
> of fscrypt_key::size being misaligned as it needs 4-byte alignment.
>
> Align to __alignof__(u64) rather than __alignof__(long) since in the
> future it's conceivable that people would use structs beginning with
> u64, which on some platforms would require more than 'long' alignment.
...
> include/keys/user-type.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/keys/user-type.h b/include/keys/user-type.h
> index e098cbe27db5..12babe991594 100644
> --- a/include/keys/user-type.h
> +++ b/include/keys/user-type.h
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
> struct user_key_payload {
> struct rcu_head rcu; /* RCU destructor */
> unsigned short datalen; /* length of this data */
> - char data[0]; /* actual data */
> + char data[0] __aligned(__alignof__(u64)); /* actual data */
> };
I'd make the 'datalen' field 'unsigned int' at the same time.
It will use some of the hole you've made and generate better
code on most arches.
David
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