Re: [PATCH 0/2] apparmor unaligned memory fixes

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2025-11-18T09:05:01Z

Hi Helge,

On Sat, 2025-05-31 at 17:08 +0200, deller@kernel.org wrote:
> From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
>
> Two patches which fix unaligned memory accesses in apparmor.
> Both triggered on the parisc platform, which is much more
> memory alignment sensitive and will report violations.
> Please check and apply.
>
> Helge
>
> Helge Deller (2):
> apparmor: Fix 8-byte alignment for initial dfa blob streams
> apparmor: Fix unaligned memory accesses in KUnit test
>
> security/apparmor/lsm.c | 4 ++--
> security/apparmor/policy_unpack_test.c | 6 ++++--
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Thanks for looking into this!

Unfortunately, the problem still persists on SPARC even with v6.18-rc6:

[ 76.209476] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[8dabfc] aa_dfa_unpack+0x3c/0x6e0
[ 76.301115] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[8dac0c] aa_dfa_unpack+0x4c/0x6e0
[ 76.392697] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[8dacf0] aa_dfa_unpack+0x130/0x6e0
[ 76.485440] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[8dacf0] aa_dfa_unpack+0x130/0x6e0
[ 76.578179] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[8dacf0] aa_dfa_unpack+0x130/0x6e0

I have documented the problem here [1].

So, I suspect that your fix is incomplete.

Adrian

> [1] https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues/30

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