linux-kernel - drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76_connac_mcu.c:262:17: warning: taking address of packed member 'len' of class or structure 'tlv' may result in an unaligned pointer value

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Date:   Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:59:31 +0800
From:   kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
To:     Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>
Cc:     llvm@...ts.linux.dev, kbuild-all@...ts.01.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
Subject: drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76_connac_mcu.c:262:17:
 warning: taking address of packed member 'len' of class or structure 'tlv'
 may result in an unaligned pointer value

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
head:   e0dccc3b76fb35bb257b4118367a883073d7390e
commit: 25702d9c55dc5fda2ad9ad8de115e50dc7394ef9 mt76: connac: rely on le16_add_cpu in mt76_connac_mcu_add_nested_tlv
date:   7 months ago
config: arm-buildonly-randconfig-r003-20220724 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220725/202207251801.hLXIP9Rh-lkp@intel.com/config)
compiler: clang version 15.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 9e88cbcc403bdf82f29259ad60ff60a8fc4434a1)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
        wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
        chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
        # install arm cross compiling tool for clang build
        # apt-get install binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi
        # https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=25702d9c55dc5fda2ad9ad8de115e50dc7394ef9
        git remote add linus https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
        git fetch --no-tags linus master
        git checkout 25702d9c55dc5fda2ad9ad8de115e50dc7394ef9
        # save the config file
        mkdir build_dir && cp config build_dir/.config
        COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=clang make.cross W=1 O=build_dir ARCH=arm SHELL=/bin/bash drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag where applicable
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

>> drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76_connac_mcu.c:262:17: warning: taking address of packed member 'len' of class or structure 'tlv' may result in an unaligned pointer value [-Waddress-of-packed-member]
                   le16_add_cpu(&sta_hdr->len, len);
                                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~
   1 warning generated.


vim +262 drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76_connac_mcu.c

   242	
   243	struct tlv *
   244	mt76_connac_mcu_add_nested_tlv(struct sk_buff *skb, int tag, int len,
   245				       void *sta_ntlv, void *sta_wtbl)
   246	{
   247		struct sta_ntlv_hdr *ntlv_hdr = sta_ntlv;
   248		struct tlv *sta_hdr = sta_wtbl;
   249		struct tlv *ptlv, tlv = {
   250			.tag = cpu_to_le16(tag),
   251			.len = cpu_to_le16(len),
   252		};
   253		u16 ntlv;
   254	
   255		ptlv = skb_put(skb, len);
   256		memcpy(ptlv, &tlv, sizeof(tlv));
   257	
   258		ntlv = le16_to_cpu(ntlv_hdr->tlv_num);
   259		ntlv_hdr->tlv_num = cpu_to_le16(ntlv + 1);
   260	
   261		if (sta_hdr)
 > 262			le16_add_cpu(&sta_hdr->len, len);
   263	
   264		return ptlv;
   265	}
   266	EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mt76_connac_mcu_add_nested_tlv);
   267	

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