Re: [PATCH] virtio_bt: Fix alignment in configuration struct

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Thu Aug 11 2022 - 04:00:21 EST


On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 08:16:11AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 02:04:43PM +0200, Igor Skalkin wrote:
> > On 8/8/22 01:00, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 12:11:52AM +0200, Igor Skalkin wrote:
> >
> > According to specification [1], "For the device-specific configuration
> > space, the driver MUST use 8 bit wide accesses for 8 bit wide fields,
> > 16 bit wide and aligned accesses for 16 bit wide fields and 32 bit wide
> > and aligned accesses for 32 and 64 bit wide fields.".
> >
> > Current version of the configuration structure:
> >
> > struct virtio_bt_config {
> > __u8 type;
> > __u16 vendor;
> > __u16 msft_opcode;
> > } __attribute__((packed));
> >
> > has both 16bit fields non-aligned.
> >
> > This commit fixes it.
> >
> > [1] https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fdocs.oasis%2dopen.org%2fvirtio%2fvirtio%2fv1.1%2fvirtio%2dv1.1.pdf&umid=d1786ace-e8ea-40e8-9665-96c0949174e5&auth=53c7c7de28b92dfd96e93d9dd61a23e634d2fbec-39b15885ceebe9fda9357320aec1ccbac416a470
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Igor Skalkin <Igor.Skalkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This is all true enough, but the problem is
> > 1. changing uapi like this can't be done, will break userspace
> > 2. the driver has more issues and no one seems to want to
> > maintain it.
> > I posted a patch "Bluetooth: virtio_bt: mark broken" and intend
> > to merge it for this release.
> >
> > This is very sad. We already use this driver in our projects.
>
> Really? Can you step up to maintain it? Then we can fix the issues
> and it won't be broken.

Just a reminder that I'm waiting for a response on that.
I just don't know enough about bluetooth.

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