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commit 55228db2 upstream.

WG14 N2350 specifies that it is an undefined behavior to have type
definitions within offsetof", see

  https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2350.htm



This specification is also part of C23.

Therefore, replace the TYPE_ALIGN macro with the _Alignof builtin to
avoid undefined behavior. (_Alignof itself is C11 and the kernel is
built with -gnu11).

ISO C11 _Alignof is subtly different from the GNU C extension
__alignof__. Latter is the preferred alignment and _Alignof the
minimal alignment. For long long on x86 these are 8 and 4
respectively.

The macro TYPE_ALIGN's behavior matches _Alignof rather than
__alignof__.

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Signed-off-by: default avatarYingChi Long <me@inclyc.cn>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220925153151.2467884-1-me@inclyc.cn


Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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