[PATCH 3/6] tools/nolibc: properly align dirent buffer

From: Thomas Weißschuh
Date: Wed Apr 16 2025 - 14:41:05 EST


As byte buffer is overlaid with a 'struct dirent64'.
it has to satisfy the structs alignment requirements.

Fixes: 665fa8dea90d ("tools/nolibc: add support for directory access")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/include/nolibc/dirent.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/include/nolibc/dirent.h b/tools/include/nolibc/dirent.h
index c5c30d0dd6806b1bec2fa8120a3df29aaa201393..cd0ddff86c360b14913a809c8696d89d8a356e9e 100644
--- a/tools/include/nolibc/dirent.h
+++ b/tools/include/nolibc/dirent.h
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ int closedir(DIR *dirp)
static __attribute__((unused))
int readdir_r(DIR *dirp, struct dirent *entry, struct dirent **result)
{
+ __attribute__((aligned(__alignof__(struct linux_dirent64))))
char buf[sizeof(struct linux_dirent64) + NAME_MAX + 1];
struct linux_dirent64 *ldir = (void *)buf;
intptr_t i = (intptr_t)dirp;

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2.49.0