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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
To: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	will@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/string: Fix UBSAN misaligned access in sized_strscpy
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:21:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aZ3eKyVXPd-Fvcst@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260224170427.2296592-1-tabba@google.com>

On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 05:04:27PM +0000, Fuad Tabba wrote:
> sized_strscpy() performs word-at-a-time writes to the destination
> buffer. If the destination buffer is not aligned to unsigned long,
> direct assignment causes UBSAN misaligned-access errors.
> 
> Use put_unaligned() to safely write the words to the destination.

Have you measured the performance impact?
Have you read the comment near to

        if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KMSAN))

?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



  reply	other threads:[~2026-02-24 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-24 17:04 [PATCH] lib/string: Fix UBSAN misaligned access in sized_strscpy Fuad Tabba
2026-02-24 17:21 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2026-02-24 17:54   ` Fuad Tabba
2026-02-24 23:06     ` David Laight
2026-02-25  8:33       ` Fuad Tabba
2026-02-25 10:11         ` David Laight
2026-02-25 11:09           ` Fuad Tabba
2026-02-24 21:07 ` Kees Cook
2026-02-25  8:08   ` Fuad Tabba
2026-02-25  9:32     ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-02-25 14:40     ` David Laight

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