staging: android: binder: fix alignment issues
authorSerban Constantinescu <serban.constantinescu@arm.com>
Thu, 4 Jul 2013 09:54:46 +0000 (10:54 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 23 Jul 2013 21:37:22 +0000 (14:37 -0700)
The Android userspace aligns the data written to the binder buffers to
4bytes. Thus for 32bit platforms or 64bit platforms running an 32bit
Android userspace we can have a buffer looking like this:

platform    buffer(binder_cmd   pointer)      size
32/32                 32b         32b          8B
64/32                 32b         64b          12B
64/64                 32b         64b          12B

Thus the kernel needs to check that the buffer size is aligned to 4bytes
not to (void *) that will be 8bytes on 64bit machines.

The change does not affect existing 32bit ABI.

Signed-off-by: Serban Constantinescu <serban.constantinescu@arm.com>
Acked-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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