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The i386 ABI disagrees with most other ABIs regarding alignment of
data types larger than 4 bytes: on most ABIs a padding must be added
at end of the structures, while it is not required on i386.
So for most ABI struct c4iw_create_cq_resp gets implicitly padded
to be aligned on a 8 bytes multiple, while for i386, such padding
is not added.
The tool pahole can be used to find such implicit padding:
$ pahole --anon_include \
--nested_anon_include \
--recursive \
--class_name c4iw_create_cq_resp \
drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/iw_cxgb4.o
Then, structure layout can be compared between i386 and x86_64:
+++ obj-i386/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/iw_cxgb4.o.pahole.txt 2014-03-28 11:43:05.547432195 +0100
--- obj-x86_64/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/iw_cxgb4.o.pahole.txt 2014-03-28 10:55:10.990133017 +0100
@@ -14,9 +13,8 @@ struct c4iw_create_cq_resp {
__u32 size; /* 28 4 */
__u32 qid_mask; /* 32 4 */
- /* size: 36, cachelines: 1, members: 6 */
- /* last cacheline: 36 bytes */
+ /* size: 40, cachelines: 1, members: 6 */
+ /* padding: 4 */
+ /* last cacheline: 40 bytes */
};
This ABI disagreement will make an x86_64 kernel try to write past the
buffer provided by an i386 binary.
When boundary check will be implemented, the x86_64 kernel will refuse
to write past the i386 userspace provided buffer and the uverbs will
fail.
If the structure is on a page boundary and the next page is not
mapped, ib_copy_to_udata() will fail and the uverb will fail.
This patch adds an explicit padding at end of structure
c4iw_create_cq_resp, and, like
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