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Helge Deller c567de2c4f apparmor: Fix 8-byte alignment for initial dfa blob streams
The dfa blob stream for the aa_dfa_unpack() function is expected to be aligned
on a 8 byte boundary.

The static nulldfa_src[] and stacksplitdfa_src[] arrays store the initial
apparmor dfa blob streams, but since they are declared as an array-of-chars
the compiler and linker will only ensure a "char" (1-byte) alignment.

Add an __aligned(8) annotation to the arrays to tell the linker to always
align them on a 8-byte boundary. This avoids runtime warnings at startup on
alignment-sensitive platforms like parisc such as:

 Kernel: unaligned access to 0x7f2a584a in aa_dfa_unpack+0x124/0x788 (iir 0xca0109f)
 Kernel: unaligned access to 0x7f2a584e in aa_dfa_unpack+0x210/0x788 (iir 0xca8109c)
 Kernel: unaligned access to 0x7f2a586a in aa_dfa_unpack+0x278/0x788 (iir 0xcb01090)

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 98b824ff89 ("apparmor: refcount the pdb")
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2025-07-20 02:19:27 -07:00
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