Re: Bug report: unaligned access with ext4 encryption

[David Howells]

Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> 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?

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.

David