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Kernel 5.4 XMALLOCALIGN override drops alignment on kernels without natural kmalloc alignment · Kernel memory safety
On kernels before 5.4,
XMALLOCALIGN/XREALLOCALIGNthrow awaya/alignand call plainmalloc/realloc(kmalloc/krealloc). Those kernels only guaranteeARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, so callers that need 16/64-byte alignment (e.g. for AES-NI) get misaligned buffers. The gate looks inverted.Suggested fix: Remove the pre-5.4 override so these kernels use the generic
wc_MallocAlignfamily, which enforces the requested alignment.Basis: Linux Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst (since v5.4): kmalloc gives at least ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, plus natural alignment for power-of-two sizes; earlier kernels only promise ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN.
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