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Linus Torvalds ebede9aadf drm: fix EDID struct for old ARM OABI format
[ Upstream commit 47f15561b69e226bfc034e94ff6dbec51a4662af ]

When building the kernel for arm with the "-mabi=apcs-gnu" option, gcc
will force alignment of all structures and unions to a word boundary
(see also STRUCTURE_SIZE_BOUNDARY and the "-mstructure-size-boundary=XX"
option if you're a gcc person), even when the members of said structures
do not want or need said alignment.

This completely messes up the structure alignment of 'struct edid' on
those targets, because even though all the embedded structures are
marked with "__attribute__((packed))", the unions that contain them are
not.

This was exposed by commit f1e4c916f97f ("drm/edid: add EDID block count
and size helpers"), but the bug is pre-existing.  That commit just made
the structure layout problem cause a build failure due to the addition
of the

        BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(*edid) != EDID_LENGTH);

sanity check in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c:edid_block_data().

This legacy union alignment should probably not be used in the first
place, but we can fix the layout by adding the packed attribute to the
union entries even when each member is already packed and it shouldn't
matter in a sane build environment.

You can see this issue with a trivial test program:

  union {
	struct {
		char c[5];
	};
	struct {
		char d;
		unsigned e;
	} __attribute__((packed));
  } a = { "1234" };

where building this with a normal "gcc -S" will result in the expected
5-byte size of said union:

	.type	a, @object
	.size	a, 5

but with an ARM compiler and the old ABI:

    arm-linux-gnu-gcc -mabi=apcs-gnu -mfloat-abi=soft -S t.c

you get

	.type	a, %object
	.size	a, 8

instead, because even though each member of the union is packed, the
union itself still gets aligned.

This was reported by Sudip for the spear3xx_defconfig target.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YpCUzStDnSgQLNFN@debian/
Reported-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-06-14 18:11:31 +02:00
arch powerpc/iommu: Add missing of_node_put in iommu_init_early_dart 2022-06-14 18:11:31 +02:00
block block: return ELEVATOR_DISCARD_MERGE if possible 2022-05-25 09:14:38 +02:00
certs certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key if it's not an RSA key 2021-09-15 09:47:29 +02:00
crypto crypto: ecrdsa - Fix incorrect use of vli_cmp 2022-06-06 08:33:50 +02:00
Documentation hwmon: Make chip parameter for with_info API mandatory 2022-06-14 18:11:29 +02:00
drivers RDMA/hfi1: Prevent panic when SDMA is disabled 2022-06-14 18:11:31 +02:00
fs fat: add ratelimit to fat*_ent_bread() 2022-06-14 18:11:30 +02:00
include drm: fix EDID struct for old ARM OABI format 2022-06-14 18:11:31 +02:00
init init/main.c: return 1 from handled __setup() functions 2022-04-15 14:18:35 +02:00
ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-12-01 09:23:35 +01:00
kernel dma-debug: change allocation mode from GFP_NOWAIT to GFP_ATIOMIC 2022-06-14 18:11:28 +02:00
lib assoc_array: Fix BUG_ON during garbage collect 2022-06-06 08:33:50 +02:00
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mm zsmalloc: fix races between asynchronous zspage free and page migration 2022-06-06 08:33:50 +02:00
net rxrpc: Return an error to sendmsg if call failed 2022-06-14 18:11:29 +02:00
samples samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed 2021-11-17 09:48:39 +01:00
scripts gcc-plugins: latent_entropy: use /dev/urandom 2022-04-20 09:19:38 +02:00
security lockdown: also lock down previous kgdb use 2022-06-06 08:33:48 +02:00
sound ASoC: max98357a: remove dependency on GPIOLIB 2022-06-14 18:11:29 +02:00
tools selftests/bpf: fix btf_dump/btf_dump due to recent clang change 2022-06-14 18:11:29 +02:00
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virt KVM: Prevent module exit until all VMs are freed 2022-04-15 14:18:27 +02:00
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