From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: "'Michal Suchánek'" <msuchanek@suse.de>,
"Ashley Lai" <ashleydlai@gmail.com>,
"Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
"Paul Mackerras" <paulus@samba.org>,
"Michael Ellerman" <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
"Peter Huewe" <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
"Marcel Selhorst" <tpmdd@selhorst.net>,
"Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
"Jason Gunthorpe" <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>,
"tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net"
<tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: ibmvtpm byteswapping inconsistency
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 11:18:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6DB0270A32@AcuExch.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170126212248.3f3e9103@kitsune.suse.cz>
From: Michal Suchánek
> building ibmvtpm I noticed gcc warning complaining that second word of
> struct ibmvtpm_crq in tpm_ibmvtpm_suspend is uninitialized.
>
> The structure is defined as
>
> struct ibmvtpm_crq {
> u8 valid;
> u8 msg;
> __be16 len;
> __be32 data;
> __be64 reserved;
> } __attribute__((packed, aligned(8)));
>
> initialized as
>
> struct ibmvtpm_crq crq;
> u64 *buf = (u64 *) &crq;
...
Hrummfff....
What is that attribute for, seems pretty confusing and pointless to me.
I also suspect that if you want to access it as two 64bit words it
ought to be a union.
David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-27 11:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-26 20:22 ibmvtpm byteswapping inconsistency Michal Suchánek
2017-01-26 22:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-01-26 22:43 ` Michal Suchanek
2017-01-26 22:58 ` Ashley Lai
2017-02-02 4:40 ` Vicky
2017-02-02 10:55 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-02-02 11:29 ` Michal Suchánek
2017-02-02 15:17 ` David Laight
2017-01-27 1:42 ` Tyrel Datwyler
2017-01-27 1:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-01-27 9:03 ` Michal Suchanek
2017-01-27 21:19 ` Tyrel Datwyler
2017-01-30 4:32 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-01-30 20:34 ` Tyrel Datwyler
2017-01-31 8:38 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-01-27 18:02 ` Tyrel Datwyler
2017-01-27 19:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-01-27 20:32 ` Tyrel Datwyler
2017-01-28 0:35 ` msuchanek
2017-01-28 4:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-01-30 14:42 ` David Laight
2017-01-27 11:18 ` David Laight [this message]
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