Re: [PATCH linux dev-4.10 3/6] drivers/misc: Add driver for Aspeed PECI and generic PECI headers

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jan 10 2018 - 05:20:23 EST


On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 02:31:23PM -0800, Jae Hyun Yoo wrote:
> +#pragma pack(push, 1)
> +struct peci_xfer_msg {
> + unsigned char client_addr;
> + unsigned char tx_len;
> + unsigned char rx_len;
> + unsigned char tx_buf[MAX_BUFFER_SIZE];
> + unsigned char rx_buf[MAX_BUFFER_SIZE];
> +};
> +#pragma pack(pop)

For any structure that crosses the user/kernel boundry, you _HAVE_ to
use the "__" variant. So for here you would use __u8 instead of
"unsigned char" in order for things to work properly.

I'm guessing you didn't test this all out on a mixed 32/64 bit system?

Please fix up and test to ensure that it all works properly before
resubmitting.

thanks,

greg k-h