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authorYi Li <yi.li@analog.com>2008-04-25 12:49:21 -0400
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>2008-04-27 11:25:51 -0400
commit0701a9e649bf0ffdac0a761d3c3d1041f5375d90 (patch)
tree1af2937107ca0ee1552523accac89c696125ba69
parentb69d3987f4360a5e7e9e55465b3cdd0cc204b79e (diff)
slob: fix bug - when slob allocates "struct kmem_cache", it does not force alignment.
This may trigger misaligned memory access exception. Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Yi Li <yi.li@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
-rw-r--r--mm/slob.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index e2c3c0ec5463..6038cbadf796 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -533,7 +533,8 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size,
533{ 533{
534 struct kmem_cache *c; 534 struct kmem_cache *c;
535 535
536 c = slob_alloc(sizeof(struct kmem_cache), flags, 0, -1); 536 c = slob_alloc(sizeof(struct kmem_cache),
537 flags, ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, -1);
537 538
538 if (c) { 539 if (c) {
539 c->name = name; 540 c->name = name;