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)
commitec35e852dc9de9809f88ff397d7a611208880f9f
tree09b2de8fae602093ff786bb5aa90226771be0c89
parentfc56f2ecf091d774c18ad0d470c62c6818fa32a3
staging: android: binder: fix alignment issues

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>
drivers/staging/android/binder.c