Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.16 merge window.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/rust/kernel/alloc/allocator_test.rs b/rust/kernel/alloc/allocator_test.rs
index e3240d16040b..c37d4c0c64e9 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/alloc/allocator_test.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/alloc/allocator_test.rs
@@ -62,6 +62,24 @@ unsafe impl Allocator for Cmalloc {
             ));
         }
 
+        // ISO C (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) defines `aligned_alloc`:
+        //
+        // > The value of alignment shall be a valid alignment supported by the implementation
+        // [...].
+        //
+        // As an example of the "supported by the implementation" requirement, POSIX.1-2001 (IEEE
+        // 1003.1-2001) defines `posix_memalign`:
+        //
+        // > The value of alignment shall be a power of two multiple of sizeof (void *).
+        //
+        // and POSIX-based implementations of `aligned_alloc` inherit this requirement. At the time
+        // of writing, this is known to be the case on macOS (but not in glibc).
+        //
+        // Satisfy the stricter requirement to avoid spurious test failures on some platforms.
+        let min_align = core::mem::size_of::<*const crate::ffi::c_void>();
+        let layout = layout.align_to(min_align).map_err(|_| AllocError)?;
+        let layout = layout.pad_to_align();
+
         // SAFETY: Returns either NULL or a pointer to a memory allocation that satisfies or
         // exceeds the given size and alignment requirements.
         let dst = unsafe { libc_aligned_alloc(layout.align(), layout.size()) } as *mut u8;