From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] fork: Honor task_struct's declared alignment
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:39:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260710123957.31774-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com> (raw)
Since commit cb7ca40a3882 ("x86/fpu: Make task_struct::thread constant
size"), struct task_struct is declared __attribute__((aligned(64))) on
all architectures.
But fork_init() still sets the task_struct slab cache's alignment to
align = max(L1_CACHE_BYTES, ARCH_MIN_TASKALIGN)
which is smaller than 64 on architectures whose cache lines are below
64 bytes: e.g. 32 on ARMv5.
In practice plain SLUB happens to hand out 64-byte-aligned objects
anyway. With CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON the red-zone padding shifts objects
to the requested alignment.
With CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT=y a boot on QEMU versatilepb (ARM926EJ-S,
v7.2-rc2, gcc 13.3) floods the console with reports like:
UBSAN: misaligned-access in include/linux/sched.h:2087:9
member access within misaligned address c295d7e0 for type 'struct task_struct'
which requires 64 byte alignment
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 15 Comm: pr/ttyAMA-1 Not tainted 7.2.0-rc2 #1 VOLUNTARY
Set the slab alignment to at least the type's declared alignment.
Fixes: cb7ca40a3882 ("x86/fpu: Make task_struct::thread constant size")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
---
kernel/fork.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index f0e2e131a9a5..b85cf1343329 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -857,7 +857,8 @@ void __init fork_init(void)
#ifndef ARCH_MIN_TASKALIGN
#define ARCH_MIN_TASKALIGN 0
#endif
- int align = max_t(int, L1_CACHE_BYTES, ARCH_MIN_TASKALIGN);
+ int align = max3(L1_CACHE_BYTES, ARCH_MIN_TASKALIGN,
+ __alignof__(struct task_struct));
unsigned long useroffset, usersize;
/* create a slab on which task_structs can be allocated */
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)
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