From: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de>
The UEFI Specification Version 2.7 Errata A defines:
"EFI_GUID
128-bit buffer containing a unique identifier value.
Unless otherwise specified, aligned on a 64-bit boundary."
Before this patch efi_guid_t was 8-bit aligned.
Note that this could potentially trigger alignment faults during
EFI runtime services calls on 32-bit ARM, given that it does not
permit load/store double or load/store multiple instructions to
operate on memory addresses that are not 32-bit aligned.
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> # v4.9+, or earlier if possible
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>
---
include/linux/efi.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
index 100ce4a4aff6..e6480c805932 100644
--- a/include/linux/efi.h
+++ b/include/linux/efi.h
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ typedef u16 efi_char16_t; /* UNICODE character */
typedef u64 efi_physical_addr_t;
typedef void *efi_handle_t;
-typedef guid_t efi_guid_t;
+typedef guid_t efi_guid_t __aligned(8);
#define EFI_GUID(a,b,c,d0,d1,d2,d3,d4,d5,d6,d7) \
GUID_INIT(a, b, c, d0, d1, d2, d3, d4, d5, d6, d7)
--
2.17.1
