6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org
commit 8217ad0a435ff06d651d7298ea8ae8d72388179e upstream.
The ZSTD decompressor requires malloc() allocations to be 8 byte aligned, so ensure that this the case.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230807162720.545787-19-ardb@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- include/linux/decompress/mm.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/decompress/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/decompress/mm.h @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ MALLOC_VISIBLE void *malloc(int size) if (!malloc_ptr) malloc_ptr = free_mem_ptr;
- malloc_ptr = (malloc_ptr + 3) & ~3; /* Align */ + malloc_ptr = (malloc_ptr + 7) & ~7; /* Align */
p = (void *)malloc_ptr; malloc_ptr += size;