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Date:   Fri, 26 Jul 2019 18:30:45 -0300
From:   Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
To:     Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
Cc:     vyasevich@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com,
        linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/sctp: fix GCC8+ -Wpacked-not-aligned warnings

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 04:57:39PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> There are a lot of those warnings with GCC8+ 64bit,
> 
> In file included from ./include/linux/sctp.h:42,
>                  from net/core/skbuff.c:47:
> ./include/uapi/linux/sctp.h:395:1: warning: alignment 4 of 'struct
> sctp_paddr_change' is less than 8 [-Wpacked-not-aligned]
>  } __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)));
>  ^
> ./include/uapi/linux/sctp.h:728:1: warning: alignment 4 of 'struct
> sctp_setpeerprim' is less than 8 [-Wpacked-not-aligned]
>  } __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)));
>  ^
> ./include/uapi/linux/sctp.h:727:26: warning: 'sspp_addr' offset 4 in
> 'struct sctp_setpeerprim' isn't aligned to 8 [-Wpacked-not-aligned]
>   struct sockaddr_storage sspp_addr;
>                           ^~~~~~~~~
> ./include/uapi/linux/sctp.h:741:1: warning: alignment 4 of 'struct
> sctp_prim' is less than 8 [-Wpacked-not-aligned]
>  } __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)));
>  ^
> ./include/uapi/linux/sctp.h:740:26: warning: 'ssp_addr' offset 4 in
> 'struct sctp_prim' isn't aligned to 8 [-Wpacked-not-aligned]
>   struct sockaddr_storage ssp_addr;
>                           ^~~~~~~~
> ./include/uapi/linux/sctp.h:792:1: warning: alignment 4 of 'struct
> sctp_paddrparams' is less than 8 [-Wpacked-not-aligned]
>  } __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)));
>  ^
> ./include/uapi/linux/sctp.h:784:26: warning: 'spp_address' offset 4 in
> 'struct sctp_paddrparams' isn't aligned to 8 [-Wpacked-not-aligned]
>   struct sockaddr_storage spp_address;
>                           ^~~~~~~~~~~
> ./include/uapi/linux/sctp.h:905:1: warning: alignment 4 of 'struct
> sctp_paddrinfo' is less than 8 [-Wpacked-not-aligned]
>  } __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)));
>  ^
> ./include/uapi/linux/sctp.h:899:26: warning: 'spinfo_address' offset 4
> in 'struct sctp_paddrinfo' isn't aligned to 8 [-Wpacked-not-aligned]
>   struct sockaddr_storage spinfo_address;
>                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Fix them by aligning the structures and fields to 8 bytes instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/sctp.h | 18 +++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sctp.h b/include/uapi/linux/sctp.h
> index b8f2c4d56532..e7bd71cde882 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/sctp.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/sctp.h

These changes gotta be more careful, if possible at all. As is, it's breaking UAPI.

-before
+after patch

 struct sctp_paddrparams {
        sctp_assoc_t               spp_assoc_id;         /*     0     4 */
-       struct __kernel_sockaddr_storage spp_address __attribute__((__aligned__(1))); /*     4   128 */
-       /* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) was 4 bytes ago --- */
-       __u32                      spp_hbinterval;       /*   132     4 */
-       __u16                      spp_pathmaxrxt;       /*   136     2 */
-       __u32                      spp_pathmtu;          /*   138     4 */
-       __u32                      spp_sackdelay;        /*   142     4 */
-       __u32                      spp_flags;            /*   146     4 */
-       __u32                      spp_ipv6_flowlabel;   /*   150     4 */
-       __u8                       spp_dscp;             /*   154     1 */

-       /* size: 156, cachelines: 3, members: 9 */
+       /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
+
+       struct __kernel_sockaddr_storage spp_address __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /*     8   128 */
+       /* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) was 8 bytes ago --- */
+       __u32                      spp_hbinterval;       /*   136     4 */
+       __u16                      spp_pathmaxrxt;       /*   140     2 */
+       __u32                      spp_pathmtu;          /*   142     4 */
+       __u32                      spp_sackdelay;        /*   146     4 */
+       __u32                      spp_flags;            /*   150     4 */
+       __u32                      spp_ipv6_flowlabel;   /*   154     4 */
+       __u8                       spp_dscp;             /*   158     1 */
+
+       /* size: 160, cachelines: 3, members: 9 */
+       /* sum members: 155, holes: 1, sum holes: 4 */
        /* padding: 1 */
-       /* forced alignments: 1 */
-       /* last cacheline: 28 bytes */
-} __attribute__((__aligned__(4)));
+       /* forced alignments: 1, forced holes: 1, sum forced holes: 4 */
+       /* last cacheline: 32 bytes */
+} __attribute__((__aligned__(8)));


> @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ struct sctp_paddr_change {
>  	int spc_state;
>  	int spc_error;
>  	sctp_assoc_t spc_assoc_id;
> -} __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)));
> +} __attribute__((packed, aligned(8)));
>  
>  /*
>   *    spc_state:  32 bits (signed integer)
> @@ -724,8 +724,8 @@ struct sctp_assocparams {
>   */
>  struct sctp_setpeerprim {
>  	sctp_assoc_t            sspp_assoc_id;
> -	struct sockaddr_storage sspp_addr;
> -} __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)));
> +	struct sockaddr_storage sspp_addr __attribute__((aligned(8)));
> +} __attribute__((packed, aligned(8)));
>  
>  /*
>   * 7.1.10 Set Primary Address (SCTP_PRIMARY_ADDR)
> @@ -737,8 +737,8 @@ struct sctp_setpeerprim {
>   */
>  struct sctp_prim {
>  	sctp_assoc_t            ssp_assoc_id;
> -	struct sockaddr_storage ssp_addr;
> -} __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)));
> +	struct sockaddr_storage ssp_addr __attribute__((aligned(8)));
> +} __attribute__((packed, aligned(8)));
>  
>  /* For backward compatibility use, define the old name too */
>  #define sctp_setprim	sctp_prim
> @@ -781,7 +781,7 @@ enum  sctp_spp_flags {
>  
>  struct sctp_paddrparams {
>  	sctp_assoc_t		spp_assoc_id;
> -	struct sockaddr_storage	spp_address;
> +	struct sockaddr_storage	spp_address __attribute__((aligned(8)));
>  	__u32			spp_hbinterval;
>  	__u16			spp_pathmaxrxt;
>  	__u32			spp_pathmtu;
> @@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ struct sctp_paddrparams {
>  	__u32			spp_flags;
>  	__u32			spp_ipv6_flowlabel;
>  	__u8			spp_dscp;
> -} __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)));
> +} __attribute__((packed, aligned(8)));
>  
>  /*
>   * 7.1.18.  Add a chunk that must be authenticated (SCTP_AUTH_CHUNK)
> @@ -896,13 +896,13 @@ struct sctp_stream_value {
>   */
>  struct sctp_paddrinfo {
>  	sctp_assoc_t		spinfo_assoc_id;
> -	struct sockaddr_storage	spinfo_address;
> +	struct sockaddr_storage	spinfo_address __attribute__((aligned(8)));
>  	__s32			spinfo_state;
>  	__u32			spinfo_cwnd;
>  	__u32			spinfo_srtt;
>  	__u32			spinfo_rto;
>  	__u32			spinfo_mtu;
> -} __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)));
> +} __attribute__((packed, aligned(8)));
>  
>  /* Peer addresses's state. */
>  /* UNKNOWN: Peer address passed by the upper layer in sendmsg or connect[x]
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 

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