On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 02:26:55AM +0300, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 12:39 AM Jon DeVree <n...@vault24.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 20:33:13 +0300, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> > > Is the pointer guaranteed to be aligned? If not you have to use unaligned
> > > access.
> >
> > I don't know what alignment guarantees grub_malloc() makes. As long as
> > they are close to what the regular C malloc() guarantees then it should
> > be fine.
>
> grub_malloc design guarantees the largest natural alignment of all types.
> grub_malloc implementation guarantees alignment of 4 * sizeof(void*).
>
> My concern was that the pointer is moved after alloc but it turns own
> it was not the case.
> So there are no unaligned access concerns
>
> The code still violates cast-align and strict aliasing invariants but
> so is the rest of XFS code.
> So I'm happy to merge this patch
>
> Reviewed-By: Vladimir Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>

I will push this patch together with other patches this week.
Sorry for delay...

Daniel

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