linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 001/313] devres: Align data[] to ARCH_KMALLOC

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Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:14:41 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@...opsys.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 001/313] devres: Align data[] to ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN

4.19-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Alexey Brodkin <alexey.brodkin@...opsys.com>

commit a66d972465d15b1d89281258805eb8b47d66bd36 upstream.

Initially we bumped into problem with 32-bit aligned atomic64_t
on ARC, see [1]. And then during quite lengthly discussion Peter Z.
mentioned ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN which IMHO makes perfect sense.
If allocation is done by plain kmalloc() obtained buffer will be
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN aligned and then why buffer obtained via
devm_kmalloc() should have any other alignment?

This way we at least get the same behavior for both types of
allocation.

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-snps-arc/2018-July/004009.html
[2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-snps-arc/2018-July/004036.html

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@...opsys.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 4.8+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/base/devres.c |   10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/base/devres.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devres.c
@@ -24,8 +24,14 @@ struct devres_node {
 
 struct devres {
 	struct devres_node		node;
-	/* -- 3 pointers */
-	unsigned long long		data[];	/* guarantee ull alignment */
+	/*
+	 * Some archs want to perform DMA into kmalloc caches
+	 * and need a guaranteed alignment larger than
+	 * the alignment of a 64-bit integer.
+	 * Thus we use ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN here and get exactly the same
+	 * buffer alignment as if it was allocated by plain kmalloc().
+	 */
+	u8 __aligned(ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN) data[];
 };
 
 struct devres_group {