RE: [PATCH] KEYS: user: Align the payload buffer

[David Laight]

From: David Howells
> Sent: 20 February 2019 13:32
> 
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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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