linux-kernel - [2.6 patch] KVM: fix userspace ABI breakage

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Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2008 01:36:09 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Tan Li <li.tan@...el.com>, Jerone Young <jyoung5@...ibm.com>,
	Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@...ibm.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [2.6 patch] KVM: fix userspace ABI breakage

The following part of commit 9ef621d3be56e1188300476a8102ff54f7b6793f 
(KVM: Support mixed endian machines) changed on the size of a struct 
that is exported to userspace:

include/linux/kvm.h:

@@ -318,14 +318,14 @@ struct kvm_trace_rec {
 	__u32 vcpu_id;
 	union {
 		struct {
-			__u32 cycle_lo, cycle_hi;
+			__u64 cycle_u64;
 			__u32 extra_u32[KVM_TRC_EXTRA_MAX];
 		} cycle;
 		struct {
 			__u32 extra_u32[KVM_TRC_EXTRA_MAX];
 		} nocycle;
 	} u;
-};
+} __attribute__((packed));
 

Packing a struct was the correct idea, but it packed the wrong struct.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>

---

This patch has been sent on:
- 21 Jul 2008

857d4ddbb62bc61e44b8870cda8ea1c38c6e1905 
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm.h b/include/linux/kvm.h
index 0ea064c..ad11cfe 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm.h
@@ -320,12 +320,12 @@ struct kvm_trace_rec {
 		struct {
 			__u64 cycle_u64;
 			__u32 extra_u32[KVM_TRC_EXTRA_MAX];
-		} cycle;
+		} __attribute__((packed)) cycle;
 		struct {
 			__u32 extra_u32[KVM_TRC_EXTRA_MAX];
 		} nocycle;
 	} u;
-} __attribute__((packed));
+};
 
 #define KVMIO 0xAE
 


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