[PATCH] [v2] ext4: fix ext4_tune_sb_params padding
From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Dec 05 2025 - 06:19:11 EST
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
The padding at the end of struct ext4_tune_sb_params is architecture
specific and in particular is different between x86-32 and x86-64,
since the __u64 member only enforces struct alignment on the latter.
This shows up as a new warning when test-building the headers with
-Wpadded:
include/linux/ext4.h:144:1: error: padding struct size to alignment boundary with 4 bytes [-Werror=padded]
All members inside the structure are naturally aligned, so the only
difference here is the amount of padding at the end.
Add explicit padding to mount_opts[] to keep the struct members compatible
with the original version and also keep the pad[64] member 8-byte
aligned for future extensions. This gives a consistent sizeof(struct
ext4_tune_sb_params) of 232 on all architectures and avoids adding compat
ioctl handling for EXT4_IOC_GET_TUNE_SB_PARAM/EXT4_IOC_SET_TUNE_SB_PARAM.
This is an ABI break on x86-32 but hopefully this can go into 6.18.y
early enough as a fixup so no actual users will be affected.
Fixes: 04a91570ac67 ("ext4: implemet new ioctls to set and get superblock parameters")
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
---
v2: extend mount_opts[] instead of pad[], as suggested by Andreas Dilger
---
include/uapi/linux/ext4.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ext4.h b/include/uapi/linux/ext4.h
index 6829d6f1497d..1c7cdcdb7dca 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/ext4.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/ext4.h
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ struct ext4_tune_sb_params {
__u32 clear_feature_compat_mask;
__u32 clear_feature_incompat_mask;
__u32 clear_feature_ro_compat_mask;
- __u8 mount_opts[64];
+ __u8 mount_opts[68];
__u8 pad[64];
};
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