RE: [PATCH] connector: Some fixes for ia64 unaligned access errors

["Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>]

Pete Zaitcev wrote on Monday, December 11, 2006 5:29 PM
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:52:47 -0800, Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > 	I'm shocked memcpy() introduces 8-byte stores that violate architecture
> > alignment rules. Is there any chance this a bug in ia64's memcpy()
> > implementation? I've tried to read it but since I'm not familiar with
> > ia64 asm I can't make out significant parts of it in
> > arch/ia64/lib/memcpy.S.
> 
> The arch/ia64/lib/memcpy.S is probably fine, it must be gcc doing
> an inline substitution of a well-known function.

arch/ia64/lib/memcpy.S is fine because it does alignment check at the very
beginning of the function and depends on the alignment of dst/src alignment,
it does different thing.  The unaligned access is coming from gcc inlined
version of memcpy.

But looking deeply, memory allocation for proc_event in proc_for_connector
doesn't looked correct at all:

In drivers/connector/cn_proc.c:
#define CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE (sizeof(struct cn_msg) + sizeof(struct proc_event))

void proc_fork_connector(struct task_struct *task)
{
        struct cn_msg *msg;
        struct proc_event *ev;
        __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE];

You can't do that because gcc assumes struct proc_event aligns on certain
boundary.  Doing fancy hand crafting like that breaks code generated by gcc.

- Ken