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kernel: printk: specify alignment for struct printk_log
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On architectures that have support for efficient unaligned access struct
printk_log has 4-byte alignment.  Specify alignment attribute in type
declaration.

The whole point of this patch is to fix deadlock which happening when
UBSAN detects unaligned access in printk() thus UBSAN recursively calls
printk() with logbuf_lock held by top printk() call.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Marek <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Yury Gribov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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aryabinin authored and torvalds committed Jan 21, 2016
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10 changes: 5 additions & 5 deletions kernel/printk/printk.c
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Expand Up @@ -233,7 +233,11 @@ struct printk_log {
u8 facility; /* syslog facility */
u8 flags:5; /* internal record flags */
u8 level:3; /* syslog level */
};
}
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
__packed __aligned(4)
#endif
;

/*
* The logbuf_lock protects kmsg buffer, indices, counters. This can be taken
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#define LOG_FACILITY(v) ((v) >> 3 & 0xff)

/* record buffer */
#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS)
#define LOG_ALIGN 4
#else
#define LOG_ALIGN __alignof__(struct printk_log)
#endif
#define __LOG_BUF_LEN (1 << CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT)
static char __log_buf[__LOG_BUF_LEN] __aligned(LOG_ALIGN);
static char *log_buf = __log_buf;
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