Unverified Commit 1e527139 authored Jan 15, 2026 by Thomas Weißschuh Committed by Nathan Chancellor Jan 16, 2026

hyper-v: Mark inner union in hv_kvp_exchg_msg_value as packed



The unpacked union within a packed struct generates alignment warnings
on clang for 32-bit ARM:

./usr/include/linux/hyperv.h:361:2: error: field  within 'struct hv_kvp_exchg_msg_value'
  is less aligned than 'union hv_kvp_exchg_msg_value::(anonymous at ./usr/include/linux/hyperv.h:361:2)'
  and is usually due to 'struct hv_kvp_exchg_msg_value' being packed,
  which can lead to unaligned accesses [-Werror,-Wunaligned-access]
     361 |         union {
         |         ^

With the recent changes to compile-test the UAPI headers in more cases,
this warning in combination with CONFIG_WERROR breaks the build.

Fix the warning.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512140314.DzDxpIVn-lkp@intel.com/


Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/20260110-uapi-test-disable-headers-arm-clang-unaligned-access-v1-1-b7b0fa541daa@kernel.org/


Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/29b2e736-d462-45b7-a0a9-85f8d8a3de56@app.fastmail.com/


Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Wei Liu (Microsoft) <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260115-kbuild-alignment-vbox-v1-1-076aed1623ff@linutronix.de


Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

parent 4ac85d9b

include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ struct hv_kvp_exchg_msg_value {
		__u8 value[HV_KVP_EXCHANGE_MAX_VALUE_SIZE];
		__u32 value_u32;
		__u64 value_u64;
		};
		} __attribute__((packed));
		} __attribute__((packed));

		struct hv_kvp_msg_enumerate {