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[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 67/76] can: mcp251xfd: silence clang's -Wunaligned-access warning

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2022-05-30 14:28:11
Also in: linux-can, lkml, llvm, stable
Subsystem: can network drivers, mcp251xfd spi-can network driver, the rest · Maintainers: Marc Kleine-Budde, Vincent Mailhol, Manivannan Sadhasivam, Linus Torvalds

From: Vincent Mailhol <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 1a6dd9996699889313327be03981716a8337656b ]

clang emits a -Wunaligned-access warning on union
mcp251xfd_tx_ojb_load_buf.

The reason is that field hw_tx_obj (not declared as packed) is being
packed right after a 16 bits field inside a packed struct:

| union mcp251xfd_tx_obj_load_buf {
| 	struct __packed {
| 		struct mcp251xfd_buf_cmd cmd;
| 		  /* ^ 16 bits fields */
| 		struct mcp251xfd_hw_tx_obj_raw hw_tx_obj;
| 		  /* ^ not declared as packed */
| 	} nocrc;
| 	struct __packed {
| 		struct mcp251xfd_buf_cmd_crc cmd;
| 		struct mcp251xfd_hw_tx_obj_raw hw_tx_obj;
| 		__be16 crc;
| 	} crc;
| } ____cacheline_aligned;

Starting from LLVM 14, having an unpacked struct nested in a packed
struct triggers a warning. c.f. [1].

This is a false positive because the field is always being accessed
with the relevant put_unaligned_*() function. Adding __packed to the
structure declaration silences the warning.

[1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/55520

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220518114357.55452-1-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr (local)
Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <redacted>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <redacted>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> # build
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251xfd/mcp251xfd.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251xfd/mcp251xfd.h b/drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251xfd/mcp251xfd.h
index fa1246e39980..766dbd19bba6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251xfd/mcp251xfd.h
+++ b/drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251xfd/mcp251xfd.h
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ struct mcp251xfd_hw_tef_obj {
 /* The tx_obj_raw version is used in spi async, i.e. without
  * regmap. We have to take care of endianness ourselves.
  */
-struct mcp251xfd_hw_tx_obj_raw {
+struct __packed mcp251xfd_hw_tx_obj_raw {
 	__le32 id;
 	__le32 flags;
 	u8 data[sizeof_field(struct canfd_frame, data)];
-- 
2.35.1
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