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Doing misaligned access to userspace memory would make a trap on platform where it is emulated. Latest fixes removed the kernel capability to do unaligned accesses to userspace memory safely since interrupts are kept disabled at all time during that. Thus doing so would crash the kernel. Such behavior was detected with GET_UNALIGN_CTL() that was doing a put_user() with an unsigned long* address that should have been an unsigned int*. Reenabling kernel misaligned access emulation is a bit risky and it would also degrade performances. Rather than doing that, we will try to avoid any misaligned accessed by using copy_from/to_user() which does not do any misaligned accesses. This can be done only for !CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS and thus allows to only generate a bit more code for this config. Signed-off-by: Clément Léger <cleger@rivosinc.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250602193918.868962-4-cleger@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.