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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/3] hpsa: use __packed on individual structs, not header-wide
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:22 AM Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Some of the structs contain `atomic_t` values and are not intended to be
> sent to IO controller as is.
>
> The change adds __packed to every struct and union in the file.
> Follow-up commits will fix `atomic_t` problems.
>
> The commit is a no-op at least on ia64:
> $ diff -u <(objdump -d -r old.o) <(objdump -d -r new.o)

This looks better to me, but I think it still has the same potential bug in
the CommandList definition. Moving from #pragma to annotating the
misaligned structures as __packed is more of a cleanup that could
be done separately from the bugfix, but it does make it a little more
robust.

> #define HPSA_INQUIRY 0x12
> struct InquiryData {
> u8 data_byte[36];
> -};
> +} __packed;

Marking this one and a few others as __packed is a bit silly, but
also obviously harmless, and closer to the original version, so that's
ok.

> @@ -451,7 +452,7 @@ struct CommandList {
> bool retry_pending;
> struct hpsa_scsi_dev_t *device;
> atomic_t refcount; /* Must be last to avoid memset in hpsa_cmd_init() */
> -} __aligned(COMMANDLIST_ALIGNMENT);
> +} __packed __aligned(COMMANDLIST_ALIGNMENT);

You are still marking CommandList as __packed here, which is
what caused the original problem. Please don't mark this one
as __packed at all. If there are individual members that you want
to be misaligned inside of the structure, you could mark those
explicitly.

Arnd

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