x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo
authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:27:52 +0000 (14:27 -0700)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:27:52 +0000 (14:27 -0700)
Adding struct _sigchld_x32 caused a misalignment cascade in struct
siginfo, because union _sifields is located on an 4-byte boundary
(8-byte misaligned.)

Adding new fields that are 8-byte aligned caused the intermediate
structures to also be aligned to 8 bytes, thereby adding padding in
unexpected places.

Thus, change s64 to compat_s64 here, which makes it "misaligned on
paper".  In reality these fields *are* actually aligned (there are 3
preceeding ints outside the union and 3 inside struct _sigchld_x32),
but because of the intervening union and struct it is not possible for
gcc to avoid padding without breaking the ABI.

Reported-and-tested-by: H. J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329696488-16970-1-git-send-email-hpa@zytor.com
arch/x86/include/asm/ia32.h

index 7d0c185877098bff30fe0b4ccdbacf9babde7d31..ee52760549f0797afd660137fbfedeb4cf567b08 100644 (file)
@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ typedef struct compat_siginfo {
                        unsigned int _pid;      /* which child */
                        unsigned int _uid;      /* sender's uid */
                        int _status;            /* exit code */
-                       s64 _utime;
-                       s64 _stime;
+                       compat_s64 _utime;
+                       compat_s64 _stime;
                } _sigchld_x32;
 
                /* SIGILL, SIGFPE, SIGSEGV, SIGBUS */