From: David Laight <david.lai...@aculab.com>
Date: Sep/17/2019, 11:36:21 (UTC+00:00)

> From: Jose Abreu
> > Sent: 17 September 2019 08:59
> > From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sep/17/2019, 08:32:32 (UTC+00:00)
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Clang recently added a new diagnostic in r371605, -Wsizeof-array-div,
> > > that tries to warn when sizeof(X) / sizeof(Y) does not compute the
> > > number of elements in an array X (i.e., sizeof(Y) is wrong). See that
> > > commit for more details:
> ...
> > > ../drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-dev.c:361:49: warning: expression
> > > does not compute the number of elements in this array; element type is
> > > 'u8' (aka 'unsigned char'), not 'u32' (aka 'unsigned int')
> > > [-Wsizeof-array-div]
> > >         unsigned int key_regs = sizeof(pdata->rss_key) / sizeof(u32);
> > >                                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  ^
> ...
> > > What is the reasoning behind having the key being an array of u8s but
> > > seemlingly converting it into an array of u32s? It's not immediately
> > > apparent from reading over the code but I am not familiar with it so I
> > > might be making a mistake. I assume this is intentional? If so, the
> > > warning can be silenced and we'll send patches to do so but we want to
> > > make sure we aren't actually papering over a mistake.
> > 
> > This is because we write 32 bits at a time to the reg but internally the
> > driver uses 8 bits to store the array. If you look at
> > dwxgmac2_rss_configure() you'll see that cfg->key is casted to u32 which
> > is the value we use in HW writes. Then the for loop just does the math
> > to check how many u32's has to write.
> 
> That stinks of a possible misaligned data access.....

It's possible to happen only if structure field is not aligned. I guess 
I can either change all to u32 or just __align the field of the struct 
...

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Thanks,
Jose Miguel Abreu

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