[PATCH v3] certs: specify byte alignment
From: Carlos Llamas
Date: Tue Oct 13 2026 - 19:39:28 EST
From: Giuliano Procida <gprocida@xxxxxxxxxx>
The alignments specified in system_certificates.S and
revocation_certificates.S are intended to be byte quantities.
However, the .align macro is architecture dependent and on arm64 it
behaves as .p2align. So use the .balign macro to avoid unnecessary
padding due to over-alignment.
Signed-off-by: Giuliano Procida <gprocida@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v3: tested, collected tags, rebased on top of mainline.
certs/revocation_certificates.S | 4 ++--
certs/system_certificates.S | 8 ++++----
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/certs/revocation_certificates.S b/certs/revocation_certificates.S
index f21aae8a8f0e..a53b49d49931 100644
--- a/certs/revocation_certificates.S
+++ b/certs/revocation_certificates.S
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@
__INITRODATA
- .align 8
+ .balign 8
.globl revocation_certificate_list
revocation_certificate_list:
__revocation_list_start:
.incbin "certs/x509_revocation_list"
__revocation_list_end:
- .align 8
+ .balign 8
.globl revocation_certificate_list_size
revocation_certificate_list_size:
#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
diff --git a/certs/system_certificates.S b/certs/system_certificates.S
index 003e25d4a17e..ea6984b427c9 100644
--- a/certs/system_certificates.S
+++ b/certs/system_certificates.S
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
__INITRODATA
- .align 8
+ .balign 8
.globl system_certificate_list
system_certificate_list:
__cert_list_start:
@@ -20,14 +20,14 @@ __cert_list_end:
system_extra_cert:
.fill CONFIG_SYSTEM_EXTRA_CERTIFICATE_SIZE, 1, 0
- .align 4
+ .balign 4
.globl system_extra_cert_used
system_extra_cert_used:
.int 0
#endif /* CONFIG_SYSTEM_EXTRA_CERTIFICATE */
- .align 8
+ .balign 8
.globl system_certificate_list_size
system_certificate_list_size:
#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ system_certificate_list_size:
.long __cert_list_end - __cert_list_start
#endif
- .align 8
+ .balign 8
.globl module_cert_size
module_cert_size:
#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
--
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