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Recently the kernel test robot has reported an ARM-specific BUILD_BUG_ON()
in an old and unmaintained wil6210 wireless driver. The problem comes from
the structure packing rules of old ARM ABI ('-mabi=apcs-gnu'). For example,
the following structure is packed to 18 bytes instead of 16:
struct poorly_packed {
unsigned int a;
unsigned int b;
unsigned short c;
union {
struct {
unsigned short d;
unsigned int e;
} __attribute__((packed));
struct {
unsigned short d;
unsigned int e;
} __attribute__((packed)) inner;
};
} __attribute__((packed));
To fit it into 16 bytes, it's required to add packed attribute to the
container union as well:
struct poorly_packed {
unsigned int a;
unsigned int b;
unsigned short c;
union {
struct {
unsigned short d;
unsigned int e;
} __attribute__((packed));
struct {
unsigned short d;
unsigned int e;
} __attribute__((packed)) inner;
} __attribute__((packed));
} __attribute__((packed));
Thanks to Andrew Pinski of GCC team for sorting the things out at
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2023-November/242888.html.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202311150821.cI4yciFE-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231120110607.98956-1-dmantipov@yandex.ru
Fixes: 50d7bd38c3aa ("stddef: Introduce struct_group() helper macro")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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