[PATCH v8 2/3] mm, kasan: align free_meta_offset on sizeof(void*)

From: Alexander Potapenko
Date: Thu Jul 28 2016 - 11:31:49 EST


When free_meta_offset is not zero, it is usually aligned on 4 bytes,
because the size of preceding kasan_alloc_meta is aligned on 4 bytes.
As a result, accesses to kasan_free_meta fields may be misaligned.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/kasan/kasan.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan.c b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
index 6845f92..0379551 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/kasan.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
@@ -390,7 +390,8 @@ void kasan_cache_create(struct kmem_cache *cache, size_t *size,
/* Add free meta. */
if (cache->flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU || cache->ctor ||
cache->object_size < sizeof(struct kasan_free_meta)) {
- cache->kasan_info.free_meta_offset = *size;
+ cache->kasan_info.free_meta_offset =
+ ALIGN(*size, sizeof(void *));
*size += sizeof(struct kasan_free_meta);
}
redzone_adjust = optimal_redzone(cache->object_size) -
--
2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020