Re: Brainy: bug in x86/cpu_ucode_intel.c

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 02:46:26PM +0200, Maxime Villard wrote:
> You can see that the pointer given to kmem_free() is not the one kmem_alloc
> returned. Actually, I don't understand at all what this code is supposed to
> do. Found by Brainy.

It tries to make sure the pointer has a certain alignment. ...which
likely is something we do by default, so this is not really visible.

Joerg