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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2012-03-14 22:27:52 +0100
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2012-03-14 22:27:52 +0100
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parentx32: Fix stupid ia32/x32 inversion in the siginfo format (diff)
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x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo
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
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