linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] certs: specify byte alignment

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <aNJjdzrkvfDm2SsK@willie-the-truck>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:08:07 +0100
From: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To: Giuliano Procida <gprocida@...gle.com>
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, dwmw2@...radead.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] certs: specify byte alignment

On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 09:13:42AM +0100, Giuliano Procida wrote:
> The alignments specified in system_certificates.S and
> revocation_certificates.S are intended to be byte quantities.
> 
> However, the .align macro is architecture dependent and on arm64 it
> behaves as .p2align. So use the .balign macro to avoid unnecessary
> padding due to over-alignment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Giuliano Procida <gprocida@...gle.com>
> ---
>  certs/revocation_certificates.S | 4 ++--
>  certs/system_certificates.S     | 8 ++++----
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>

Will