Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Feb 2019 15:35:10 -0800 | From | Eric Biggers <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] KEYS: user: Align the payload buffer |
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 07:37:16PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote: > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@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. > > Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> > Fixes: 2aa349f6e37c ("[PATCH] Keys: Export user-defined keyring operations") > Fixes: 88bd6ccdcdd6 ("ext4 crypto: add encryption key management facilities") > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> > --- > 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 e098cbe27db54..12babe9915944 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 */ > }; > > extern struct key_type key_type_user; > -- > 2.20.1 >
Ping. David, are you planning to apply this?
- Eric
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