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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers: staging: lustre: lustre: include: add "__attribute__((packed))" for the related union
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:37:57PM +0000, James Hogan wrote:
> On 20/01/14 12:30, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > Ah. From so metag is a new arch and not a compiler like the changelog
> > says.
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:56:47AM +0000, James Hogan wrote:
> >> struct a {
> >> struct b {
> >> unsigned int x;
> >> unsigned short y;
> >> } x;
> >> unsigned short y;
> >> } __packed;
> >
> > This is not the code we are discussing. It should look like:
> >
> > struct a {
> > union {
> > short x;
> > short y;
> > }
> > short z;
> > };
> >
> > Any normal person would assume that sizeof(struct a) would be 4 but
> > apparently on metag it is 8. That totally defeats the point of using
> > a union in the first place. It's easy enough to add a __packed to the
> > lustre declaration but I expect this to cause an endless stream of bugs.
> >
> > It it is really stupid.
>
> I agree completely (and did request this be changed when I first found
> out about it, but since it's an ABI issue it was really too late).
> That's why I'm not actively pushing for every case to be fixed unless
> it's in generic code that actually affects metag.
>

It would be easy enough to make the compiler complain about any union
which would normally have size which is not a multiple of 4.

Warning: union will be padded with 2 bytes unless __attribute__((packed)).

Otherwise you will be fighting this for ever.

regards,
dan carpenter



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