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Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust: allocator: Prevents mis-aligned allocation
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To:     Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,
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        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
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On 6/13/23 18:42, Boqun Feng wrote:
> Currently the KernelAllocator simply passes the size of the type Layout
> to krealloc(), and in theory the alignment requirement from the type
> Layout may be larger than the guarantee provided by SLAB, which means
> the allocated object is mis-aligned.
> 
> Fixes this by adjusting the allocation size to the nearest power of two,
> which SLAB always guarantees a size-aligned allocation. And because Rust
> guarantees that original size must be a multiple of alignment and the
> alignment must be a power of two, then the alignment requirement is
> satisfied.
> 
> Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Co-developed-by: Andreas Hindborg (Samsung) <nmi@metaspace.dk>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg (Samsung) <nmi@metaspace.dk>
> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.1+

Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>