linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: Fix too strict alignment check in create

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Message-ID: <d0d818bb9635d43bde2331864733504f6f7a3635.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 23:02:11 +0100
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>, Christoph Lameter
 <cl@...ux.com>,  Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, David Rientjes
 <rientjes@...gle.com>, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,  Andrew Morton
 <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Roman
 Gushchin	 <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>, Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>,
 Jens Axboe	 <axboe@...nel.dk>, Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>,
 Mike@....of.borg, 	Rapoport@....of.borg, Christian Brauner
 <brauner@...nel.org>, Guenter Roeck	 <linux@...ck-us.net>, Kees Cook
 <keescook@...omium.org>, Jann Horn	 <jannh@...gle.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, io-uring@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org, 	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: Fix too strict alignment check in create_cache()

On Wed, 2024-11-20 at 13:46 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On m68k, where the minimum alignment of unsigned long is 2 bytes:

Well, well, well, my old friend strikes again ;-).

These will always come up until we fix the alignment issue on m68k.

Adrian

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