[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-net] idpf: avoid compiler introduced padding in virtchnl2_rss_key struct
Simon Horman
horms at kernel.org
Mon Dec 18 12:08:58 UTC 2023
On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 03:48:07PM -0800, Pavan Kumar Linga wrote:
> Size of the virtchnl2_rss_key struct should be 7 bytes but the
> compiler introduces a padding byte for the structure alignment.
> This results in idpf sending an additional byte of memory to the device
> control plane than the expected buffer size. As the control plane
> enforces virtchnl message size checks to validate the message,
> set RSS key message fails resulting in the driver load failure.
>
> Remove implicit compiler padding by using "__packed" structure
> attribute for the virtchnl2_rss_key struct.
>
> Also there is no need to use __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY macro for the
> 'key_flex' struct field. So drop it.
>
> Fixes: 0d7502a9b4a7 ("virtchnl: add virtchnl version 2 ops")
> Reviewed-by: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pavan Kumar Linga <pavan.kumar.linga at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
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