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Date:   Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:53:55 +0200
From:   Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, linux-can@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...gutronix.de, Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>,
        kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>,
        Rong Chen <rong.a.chen@...el.com>,
        Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>
Subject: [net 3/3] can: uapi: can.h: mark union inside struct can_frame packed

In commit ea7800565a12 ("can: add optional DLC element to Classical
CAN frame structure") the struct can_frame::can_dlc was put into an
anonymous union with another u8 variable.

For various reasons some members in struct can_frame and canfd_frame
including the first 8 byes of data are expected to have the same
memory layout. This is enforced by a BUILD_BUG_ON check in af_can.c.

Since the above mentioned commit this check fails on ARM kernels
compiled with the ARM OABI (which means CONFIG_AEABI not set). In this
case -mabi=apcs-gnu is passed to the compiler, which leads to a
structure size boundary of 32, instead of 8 compared to CONFIG_AEABI
enabled. This means the the union in struct can_frame takes 4 bytes
instead of the expected 1.

Rong Chen illustrates the problem with pahole in the ARM OABI case:

| struct can_frame {
|          canid_t                    can_id;               /* 0     4 */
|          union {
|                  __u8               len;                  /* 4     1 */
|                  __u8               can_dlc;              /* 4     1 */
|          };                                               /* 4     4 */
|          __u8                       __pad;                /* 8     1 */
|          __u8                       __res0;               /* 9     1 */
|          __u8                       len8_dlc;             /* 10    1 */
|
|          /* XXX 5 bytes hole, try to pack */
|
|          __u8                       data[8]
| __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /*    16     8 */
|
|          /* size: 24, cachelines: 1, members: 6 */
|          /* sum members: 19, holes: 1, sum holes: 5 */
|          /* forced alignments: 1, forced holes: 1, sum forced holes: 5 */
|          /* last cacheline: 24 bytes */
| } __attribute__((__aligned__(8)));

Marking the anonymous union as __attribute__((packed)) fixes the
BUILD_BUG_ON problem on these compilers.

Fixes: ea7800565a12 ("can: add optional DLC element to Classical CAN frame structure")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Suggested-by: Rong Chen <rong.a.chen@...el.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/2c82ec23-3551-61b5-1bd8-178c3407ee83@hartkopp.net/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210325125850.1620-3-socketcan@hartkopp.net
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
---
 include/uapi/linux/can.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/can.h b/include/uapi/linux/can.h
index f75238ac6dce..c7535352fef6 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/can.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/can.h
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ struct can_frame {
 		 */
 		__u8 len;
 		__u8 can_dlc; /* deprecated */
-	};
+	} __attribute__((packed)); /* disable padding added in some ABIs */
 	__u8 __pad; /* padding */
 	__u8 __res0; /* reserved / padding */
 	__u8 len8_dlc; /* optional DLC for 8 byte payload length (9 .. 15) */
-- 
2.30.2