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commit 7481bda679eccdf1eba3666e500074dcb966e748
Author: Bișoc George <fraizeraust99(a)gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sat Mar 28 19:17:10 2020 +0100
Commit: GitHub <noreply(a)github.com>
CommitDate: Sat Mar 28 19:17:10 2020 +0100
[SDK][NDK][PSTYPES] Align the PROCESS_PRIORITY_CLASS structure during compile time
(#2478)
CORE-16757
After doing investigations on the priority class structure alignment, it's been
revealed that in Windows XP and Server 2003 this PROCESS_PRIORITY_CLASS structure is
aligned as a 4-bytes of size hence NtQueryInformationProcess() probes the alignment of
user mode arguments buffer output and buffer length with requirement of a ULONG.
As PROCESS_PRIORITY_CLASS was initially aligned as a 1-byte size because both BOOLEAN
and UCHAR are just unsigned characters, the compiler may not align such structure and
gracefully let the default alignment of such structure as is, 1-byte because an unsigned
char has a size of 1 byte. Setting an align attribute to this structure fixes the problem
of a potential datatype misalignment which caused GetPriorityClass() to not retrieve the
process' priority class properly.
---
sdk/include/ndk/pstypes.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/sdk/include/ndk/pstypes.h b/sdk/include/ndk/pstypes.h
index 543afcb618d..219b880368f 100644
--- a/sdk/include/ndk/pstypes.h
+++ b/sdk/include/ndk/pstypes.h
@@ -902,7 +902,7 @@ typedef struct _PROCESS_SESSION_INFORMATION
#endif
-typedef struct _PROCESS_PRIORITY_CLASS
+typedef struct DECLSPEC_ALIGN(4) _PROCESS_PRIORITY_CLASS
{
BOOLEAN Foreground;
UCHAR PriorityClass;