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Arnd Bergmann ca9ad549e4 carl9170: fix struct alignment conflict
Multiple structures in the carl9170 driver have alignment
impossible alignment constraints that gcc warns about when
building with 'make W=1':

drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fwcmd.h:243:2: warning: alignment 1 of 'union <anonymous>' is less than 4 [-Wpacked-not-aligned]
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/wlan.h:373:1: warning: alignment 1 of 'struct ar9170_rx_frame_single' is less than 2 [-Wpacked-not-aligned]

In the carl9170_cmd structure, multiple members that have an explicit
alignment requirement of four bytes are added into a union with explicit
byte alignment, but this in turn is part of a structure that also has
four-byte alignment.

In the wlan.h header, multiple structures contain a ieee80211_hdr member
that is required to be two-byte aligned to avoid alignmnet faults when
processing network headers, but all members are forced to be byte-aligned
using the __packed tag at the end of the struct definition.

In both cases, leaving out the packing does not change the internal
layout of the structure but changes the alignment constraint of the
structure itself.

Change all affected structures to only apply packing where it does
not violate the alignment requirement of the contained structure.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210204162926.3262598-1-arnd@kernel.org
2021-02-09 09:24:20 +02:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-02-02 14:21:31 -08:00
block block-5.11-2021-01-29 2021-01-29 13:50:06 -08:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto X.509: Fix crash caused by NULL pointer 2021-01-20 11:33:51 -08:00
Documentation net: dsa: automatically bring up DSA master when opening user port 2021-02-06 14:42:57 -08:00
drivers carl9170: fix struct alignment conflict 2021-02-09 09:24:20 +02:00
fs Networking fixes for 5.11-rc7, including fixes from bpf and mac80211 2021-02-02 10:26:09 -08:00
include ssb: Use true and false for bool variable 2021-02-08 13:23:42 +02:00
init Revert "init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console" 2021-01-08 11:02:18 -08:00
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mm mm: page_frag: Introduce page_frag_alloc_align() 2021-02-06 11:57:28 -08:00
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samples bpf: Rename BPF_XADD and prepare to encode other atomics in .imm 2021-01-14 18:34:29 -08:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.11 2021-01-10 13:24:55 -08:00
security dump_common_audit_data(): fix racy accesses to ->d_name 2021-01-16 15:11:35 -05:00
sound ALSA: hda/via: Apply the workaround generically for Clevo machines 2021-01-26 18:05:03 +01:00
tools selftests: mptcp: add command line arguments for mptcp_join.sh 2021-02-06 14:35:47 -08:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: dccp: move Gerrit Renker to CREDITS 2021-01-14 10:53:49 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS net: dsa: add a second tagger for Ocelot switches based on tag_8021q 2021-01-29 21:25:27 -08:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.