IB/mlx5: add missing padding at end of struct mlx5_ib_create_srq
The i386 ABI disagrees with most other ABIs regarding alignment of data type 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 ABIs struct mlx5_ib_create_srq gets implicitly padded to be aligned on a 8 bytes multiple, while for i386, such padding is not added. Tool pahole could be used to find such implicit padding: $ pahole --anon_include \ --nested_anon_include \ --recursive \ --class_name mlx5_ib_create_srq \ drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.o Then, structure layout can be compared between i386 and x86_64: +++ obj-i386/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.o.pahole.txt 2014-03-28 11:43:07.386413682 +0100 --- obj-x86_64/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.o.pahole.txt 2014-03-27 13:06:17.788472721 +0100 @@ -69,7 +68,6 @@ struct mlx5_ib_create_srq { __u64 db_addr; /* 8 8 */ __u32 flags; /* 16 4 */ - /* size: 20, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */ - /* last cacheline: 20 bytes */ + /* size: 24, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */ + /* padding: 4 */ + /* last cacheline: 24 bytes */ }; ABI disagreement will make an x86_64 kernel try to read past the buffer provided by an i386 binary. When boundary check will be implemented, the x86_64 kernel will refuse to read past the i386 userspace provided buffer and the uverb will fail. Anyway, if the structure lay in memory on a page boundary and next page is not mapped, ib_copy_from_udata() will fail and the uverb will fail. This patch makes create_srq_user() takes care of the input data size to handle the case where no padding was provided. This way, x86_64 kernel will be able to handle struct mlx5_ib_create_srq as sent by unpatched and patched i386 libmlx5. Link: http://marc.info/?i=cover.1399309513.git.ydroneaud@opteya.com Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Fixes: e126ba97 ("mlx5: Add driver for Mellanox Connect-IB adapter") Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
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