Re: [PATCH 0/2] kbuild, uapi: Mark inner unions in packed structs as packed
From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Fri Jan 16 2026 - 17:06:23 EST
On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:35:43 +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> The unpacked unions within a packed struct generates alignment warnings
> on clang for 32-bit ARM.
>
> With the recent changes to compile-test the UAPI headers in more cases,
> these warning in combination with CONFIG_WERROR breaks the build.
>
> Fix the warnings.
>
> [...]
Applied to
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux.git kbuild-next
Thanks!
[1/2] hyper-v: Mark inner union in hv_kvp_exchg_msg_value as packed
https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/1e5271393d777
[2/2] virt: vbox: uapi: Mark inner unions in packed structs as packed
https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/c25d01e1c4f2d
Please look out for regression or issue reports or other follow up
comments, as they may result in the patch/series getting dropped or
reverted. Patches applied to an "unstable" branch are accepted pending
wider testing in -next and any post-commit review; they will generally
be moved to the main branch in a week if no issues are found.
Best regards,
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Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>