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A number of structures and buffers passed to PKS hcalls have alignment
requirements, which could on occasion cause problems:
- Authorisation structures must be 16-byte aligned and must not cross a
page boundary
- Label structures must not cross page boundaries
- Password output buffers must not cross page boundaries
To ensure correct alignment, we adjust the allocation size of each of
these structures/buffers to be the closest power of 2 that is at least the
size of the structure/buffer (since kmalloc() guarantees that an
allocation of a power of 2 size will be aligned to at least that size).
Reported-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: 2454a7af0f ("powerpc/pseries: define driver for Platform KeyStore")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230210080401.345462-3-ajd@linux.ibm.com
Linux kernel
============
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 Restructured Text 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.