[SLOF] [PATCH] libvirtio: Mark struct virtio_scsi_req_cmd as packed

Alexey Kardashevskiy aik at ozlabs.ru
Mon Dec 11 15:36:11 AEDT 2017


On 06/12/17 19:08, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 02.11.2017 21:01, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> The struct contains an uneven amount of bytes, so we should use
>> the "packed" attribute to avoid padding problems here. So far the
>> problems did not show up yet since the struct is filled by Forth
>> code only and QEMU seems to be quite forgiving about the length of
>> the descriptor, but anyway, let's better be safe than sorry here.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  lib/libvirtio/virtio-scsi.h | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/libvirtio/virtio-scsi.h b/lib/libvirtio/virtio-scsi.h
>> index 451ba4d..d598dea 100644
>> --- a/lib/libvirtio/virtio-scsi.h
>> +++ b/lib/libvirtio/virtio-scsi.h
>> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ struct virtio_scsi_req_cmd {
>>      uint8_t prio;
>>      uint8_t crn;
>>      char cdb[VIRTIO_SCSI_CDB_SIZE];
>> -};
>> +} __attribute__((packed));
>>  
>>  /* This is the first element of the "in" scatter-gather list. */
>>  struct virtio_scsi_resp_cmd {
>>
> 
> Ping?


Thanks, applied.




-- 
Alexey


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