[PATCH 1/4] rust: alloc: replace aligned_size() with Kmalloc::aligned_layout()

Danilo Krummrich dakr at kernel.org
Tue Aug 12 20:00:02 UTC 2025


On Tue Aug 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM CEST, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> Did this need Cc: stable or was it skipped since it is just extra padding?

I don't think so, it just lead to pad to the alignment for Vmalloc too.

Technically, this makes no difference, since Vmalloc is always PAGE_SIZE aligned
and the size always a multiple of PAGE_SIZE.

However, the patch is a prerequisite for the DRM device fix in patch 2.

- Danilo


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