A number of structures and buffers passed to PKS hcalls have alignment requirements, which could on occasion cause problems: - Authorisation structures must be 16-byte aligned and must not cross a page boundary - Label structures must not cross page boundaries - Password output buffers must not cross page boundaries To ensure correct alignment, we adjust the allocation size of each of these structures/buffers to be the closest power of 2 that is at least the size of the structure/buffer (since kmalloc() guarantees that an allocation of a power of 2 size will be aligned to at least that size). Reported-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com> Fixes: 2454a7af0f2a ("powerpc/pseries: define driver for Platform KeyStore") Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc> Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230210080401.345462-3-ajd@linux.ibm.com
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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