Re: [-next] FATAL: drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl: sizeof(structusb_device_id)=24 is not a modulo of the size of section __mod_usb_device_table=44.

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Greg,

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 07:42:08PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> commit 81df2d594340dcb6d1a02191976be88a1ca8120c ("USB: allow match
>> on bInterfaceNumber") added a byte to the interior of struct usb_device_id,
>> enabling implicit padding:
>>
>> --- a/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h
>> @@ -115,6 +118,9 @@ struct usb_device_id {
>> Â Â Â Â __u8 Â Â Â Â Â ÂbInterfaceSubClass;
>> Â Â Â Â __u8 Â Â Â Â Â ÂbInterfaceProtocol;
>>
>> + Â Â Â /* Used for vendor-specific interface matches */
>> + Â Â Â __u8 Â Â Â Â Â ÂbInterfaceNumber;
>> +
>> Â Â Â Â /* not matched against */
>> Â Â Â Â kernel_ulong_t Âdriver_info;
>> Â};
>>
>> On m68k, this causes failures like:
>>
>> | FATAL: drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl: sizeof(struct usb_device_id)=24 is
>> not a modulo of the size of section __mod_usb_device_table=44.
>> | Fix definition of struct usb_device_id in mod_devicetable.h
>>
>> M68k is special in that it uses 2 for the alignment of 32-bit entities, hence
>> sizeof(struct usb_device_id) = 22.
>>
>> However, when cross-compiling on amd64, sizeof(struct usb_device_id) = 24
>> in scripts/mod/file2alias.c.
>
> I don't really understand, what is the problem here? ÂThe fact that we
> added one byte to the structure? ÂAnd now something breaks? ÂHow?
>
> What can we do to resolve it?

As "kernel_ulong_t Âdriver_info" is no longer naturally aligned, the
compiler will
add implicit padding. But the padding depends on the architecture.

It can be fixed by adding explicit padding. Probably it should be padded by
7 bytes (not 3), as kernel_ulong_t may require 8-byte alignment on some 64-bit
platforms. Or by an explicit alignment attribute.

See also
  * commit 8175fe2dda1c93a9c596921c8ed4a0b4baccdefe ("HID: fix
hid_device_id for cross compiling")
  * commit 7492d4a416d68ab4bd254b36ffcc4e0138daa8ff ("sdio: fix module
device table definition for m68k")
  * commit 9e2d3cd34a159948dc753a14573e16bffc04dba8 ("[PATCH]
mod_devicetable.h fixes")

Still, there's a bug in file2alias (which is compiled by the host
compiler), in that
it may use different padding than the target platform when cross-compiling.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

            Geert

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