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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	"Xuan Zhuo" <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>,
	"Eugenio Pérez" <eperezma@redhat.com>,
	"Andrew Lunn" <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux.dev, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][next] virtio_net: Fix alignment and avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 21:36:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aLiYrQGdGmaDTtLF@kspp> (raw)

-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end was introduced in GCC-14, and we are
getting ready to enable it, globally.

Use the new TRAILING_OVERLAP() helper to fix the following warning:

drivers/net/virtio_net.c:429:46: warning: structure containing a flexible array member is not at the end of another structure [-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end]

This helper creates a union between a flexible-array member (FAM)
and a set of members that would otherwise follow it (in this case
`u8 rss_hash_key_data[VIRTIO_NET_RSS_MAX_KEY_SIZE];`). This
overlays the trailing members (rss_hash_key_data) onto the FAM
(hash_key_data) while keeping the FAM and the start of MEMBERS aligned.
The static_assert() ensures this alignment remains, and it's
intentionally placed inmediately after `struct virtnet_info` (no
blank line in between).

Notice that due to tail padding in flexible `struct
virtio_net_rss_config_trailer`, `rss_trailer.hash_key_data`
(at offset 83 in struct virtnet_info) and `rss_hash_key_data` (at
offset 84 in struct virtnet_info) are misaligned by one byte. See
below:

struct virtio_net_rss_config_trailer {
        __le16                     max_tx_vq;            /*     0     2 */
        __u8                       hash_key_length;      /*     2     1 */
        __u8                       hash_key_data[];      /*     3     0 */

        /* size: 4, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */
        /* padding: 1 */
        /* last cacheline: 4 bytes */
};

struct virtnet_info {
...
        struct virtio_net_rss_config_trailer rss_trailer; /*    80     4 */

        /* XXX last struct has 1 byte of padding */

        u8                         rss_hash_key_data[40]; /*    84    40 */
...
        /* size: 832, cachelines: 13, members: 48 */
        /* sum members: 801, holes: 8, sum holes: 31 */
        /* paddings: 2, sum paddings: 5 */
};

After changes, those members are correctly aligned at offset 795:

struct virtnet_info {
...
        union {
                struct virtio_net_rss_config_trailer rss_trailer; /*   792     4 */
                struct {
                        unsigned char __offset_to_hash_key_data[3]; /*   792     3 */
                        u8         rss_hash_key_data[40]; /*   795    40 */
                };                                       /*   792    43 */
        };                                               /*   792    44 */
...
        /* size: 840, cachelines: 14, members: 47 */
        /* sum members: 801, holes: 8, sum holes: 35 */
        /* padding: 4 */
        /* paddings: 1, sum paddings: 4 */
        /* last cacheline: 8 bytes */
};

As a last note `struct virtio_net_rss_config_hdr *rss_hdr;` is also
moved to the end, since it seems those three members should stick
around together. :)

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
---

This should probably include the following tag:

	Fixes: ed3100e90d0d ("virtio_net: Use new RSS config structs")

but I'd like to hear some feedback, first.

Thanks!

 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 975bdc5dab84..f4964a18a214 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -425,9 +425,6 @@ struct virtnet_info {
 	u16 rss_indir_table_size;
 	u32 rss_hash_types_supported;
 	u32 rss_hash_types_saved;
-	struct virtio_net_rss_config_hdr *rss_hdr;
-	struct virtio_net_rss_config_trailer rss_trailer;
-	u8 rss_hash_key_data[VIRTIO_NET_RSS_MAX_KEY_SIZE];
 
 	/* Has control virtqueue */
 	bool has_cvq;
@@ -493,7 +490,16 @@ struct virtnet_info {
 	struct failover *failover;
 
 	u64 device_stats_cap;
+
+	struct virtio_net_rss_config_hdr *rss_hdr;
+
+	/* Must be last --ends in a flexible-array member. */
+	TRAILING_OVERLAP(struct virtio_net_rss_config_trailer, rss_trailer, hash_key_data,
+		u8 rss_hash_key_data[VIRTIO_NET_RSS_MAX_KEY_SIZE];
+	);
 };
+static_assert(offsetof(struct virtnet_info, rss_trailer.hash_key_data) ==
+	      offsetof(struct virtnet_info, rss_hash_key_data));
 
 struct padded_vnet_hdr {
 	struct virtio_net_hdr_v1_hash hdr;
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2025-09-03 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-03 19:36 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2025-09-04  9:13 ` [PATCH][next] virtio_net: Fix alignment and avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning Simon Horman
2025-09-04 18:53   ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2025-09-04 21:31     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2025-09-04 21:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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