Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 5 authors, 2021-04-15
STALE1920d LANDED

[PATCH v2 3/3] hpsa: add an assert to prevent from __packed reintroduction

From: Sergei Trofimovich <hidden>
Date: 2021-03-30 07:21:44
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: hewlett-packard smart array raid driver (hpsa), scsi subsystem, the rest · Maintainers: Don Brace, "James E.J. Bottomley", "Martin K. Petersen", Linus Torvalds

CC: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
CC: storagedev@microchip.com
CC: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
CC: Joe Szczypek <redacted>
CC: Scott Benesh <redacted>
CC: Scott Teel <redacted>
CC: Tomas Henzl <redacted>
CC: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
CC: Don Brace <don.brace@microchip.com>
Reported-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Suggested-by: Don Brace <don.brace@microchip.com>
Fixes: f749d8b7a "scsi: hpsa: Correct dev cmds outstanding for retried cmds"
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <redacted>
---
 drivers/scsi/hpsa_cmd.h | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa_cmd.h b/drivers/scsi/hpsa_cmd.h
index 885b1f1fb20a..ba6a3aa8d954 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa_cmd.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa_cmd.h
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
 
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 
+#include <linux/build_bug.h> /* static_assert */
+#include <linux/stddef.h> /* offsetof */
+
 /* general boundary defintions */
 #define SENSEINFOBYTES          32 /* may vary between hbas */
 #define SG_ENTRIES_IN_CMD	32 /* Max SG entries excluding chain blocks */
@@ -454,6 +457,15 @@ struct CommandList {
 	atomic_t refcount; /* Must be last to avoid memset in hpsa_cmd_init() */
 } __aligned(COMMANDLIST_ALIGNMENT);
 
+/*
+ * Make sure our embedded atomic variable is aligned. Otherwise we break atomic
+ * operations on architectures that don't support unaligned atomics like IA64.
+ *
+ * The assert guards against reintroductin against unwanted __packed to
+ * the struct CommandList.
+ */
+static_assert(offsetof(struct CommandList, refcount) % __alignof__(atomic_t) == 0);
+
 /* Max S/G elements in I/O accelerator command */
 #define IOACCEL1_MAXSGENTRIES           24
 #define IOACCEL2_MAXSGENTRIES		28
-- 
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