linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/6] tools/nolibc: properly align dirent buffer

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Message-Id: <20250416-nolibc-ubsan-v1-3-c4704bb23da7@weissschuh.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:40:18 +0200
From: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>, 
 Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, 
 Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
Subject: [PATCH 3/6] tools/nolibc: properly align dirent buffer

As byte buffer is overlaid with a 'struct dirent64'.
it has to satisfy the structs alignment requirements.

Fixes: 665fa8dea90d ("tools/nolibc: add support for directory access")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
---
 tools/include/nolibc/dirent.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/include/nolibc/dirent.h b/tools/include/nolibc/dirent.h
index c5c30d0dd6806b1bec2fa8120a3df29aaa201393..cd0ddff86c360b14913a809c8696d89d8a356e9e 100644
--- a/tools/include/nolibc/dirent.h
+++ b/tools/include/nolibc/dirent.h
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ int closedir(DIR *dirp)
 static __attribute__((unused))
 int readdir_r(DIR *dirp, struct dirent *entry, struct dirent **result)
 {
+	__attribute__((aligned(__alignof__(struct linux_dirent64))))
 	char buf[sizeof(struct linux_dirent64) + NAME_MAX + 1];
 	struct linux_dirent64 *ldir = (void *)buf;
 	intptr_t i = (intptr_t)dirp;

-- 
2.49.0