linux-kernel - [PATCH] can: mcp251xfd: silence clang's -Wunaligned-access warning

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Message-Id: <20220518114357.55452-1-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>
Date:   Wed, 18 May 2022 20:43:57 +0900
From:   Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>
To:     Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>,
        kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Cc:     llvm@...ts.linux.dev, kbuild-all@...ts.01.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-can@...r.kernel.org,
        Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] can: mcp251xfd: silence clang's -Wunaligned-access warning

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

Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>
---
Actually, I do not have llvm 14 installed so I am not able to test
(this check was introduced in v14). But as explained in [1], adding
__packed should fix the warning.

Because this is a false positive, I did not add a Fixes tag, nor a
Reported-by: kernel test robot.
---
 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 1d43bccc29bf..2b0309fedfac 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251xfd/mcp251xfd.h
+++ b/drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251xfd/mcp251xfd.h
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ 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