Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:13:57 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/8] x86, microcode, intel: guard against misaligned microcode data |
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 02:57:31PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Meh, I don't know where I came up with the wrong information that kmalloc > aligned to 16-bytes instead of 8 bytes. > > I do wonder why I didn't hit this while testing, though. Maybe an artifact > of slub, or just my luck that I never got a memory block that was not > aligned to 16 bytes.
The ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is conditioned on ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN and a bunch of other things. All I'm saying is, this needs a careful study when, if at all, kmalloc will not give an 16-byte aligned buffer.
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