From dc7d500451277fde0a6fe46bd45249978c8e697e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Morgenstein Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:58:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx4_core: Fix struct mlx4_vhcr_cmd to make implicit padding explicit Struct mlx4_vhcr was implicitly padded by the gcc compiler on 64-bit architectures. This commit makes that padding explicit, to prevent issues with changing compilers and with incompatibilities between 32-bit architecture implicit padding and 64-bit architecture implicit padding. This structure is used in virtualization for communication between the Host and its Guests. The explicit padding allows 64-bit Hosts (old and new) to continue to interoperate with 64-bit Guests (old and new). However, without this fix, 64-bit Hosts could not interoperate with 32-bit Guests (since these did not insert the padding dword). With this fix, 32-bit Guests will be able to interoperate with 64-bit Hosts (since the structure offsets will be identical on both). Reported-by: Alexander Schmidt Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4.h index 096a81c16a9b..148dc0945aab 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4.h @@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ struct mlx4_vhcr { struct mlx4_vhcr_cmd { __be64 in_param; __be32 in_modifier; + u32 reserved1; __be64 out_param; __be16 token; u16 reserved; -- 2.39.2