Hi, On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 05:28:02PM +0000, David Howells wrote: > Eric Biggers <ebigg...@kernel.org> wrote: > > Hi Aaro, thanks for the bug report! I think you're on the right track; it > > makes > > much more sense to have the keyrings subsystem store the payload with better > > alignment, than to work around the 2-byte alignment in fscrypt. > > > > But how about '__aligned(__alignof__(u64))' instead? 4 bytes may not be > > enough. > > > > David, what do you think? > > Does that even work?
That should work. > Might be better to just insert 6 bytes of padding with a comment, but yes I > agree that it's probably better to align it to at least machine word size. Padding is fragile, e.g. if struct rcu_head changes. Using __aligned should make it always right automatically. A.