[PATCH] objpool: fix minimum alignment of 'struct objpool_slot'

From: Arnd Bergmann

Date: Tue Feb 10 2026 - 05:35:40 EST


From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Members of objpool_slot get passed into try_cmpxchg_release(),
which does not work on most architectures unless they are
naturally aligned. Marking the structure as packed makes it
only byte-aligned, as shown by this (normally disabled) warning:

include/linux/objpool.h:156:56: warning: taking address of packed member of 'struct objpool_slot' may result in an unaligned pointer value [-Waddress-of-packed-member]
156 | if (try_cmpxchg_release(&slot->head, &head, head + 1))
| ~^~~~~~~~~~~~

As the struct members are all tightly packed on all architectures,
Just remove the '__packed annotation to give it the required
alignment of the native word size.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/objpool.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/objpool.h b/include/linux/objpool.h
index b713a1fe7521..f678b35b20b1 100644
--- a/include/linux/objpool.h
+++ b/include/linux/objpool.h
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ struct objpool_slot {
uint32_t last;
uint32_t mask;
void *entries[];
-} __packed;
+};

struct objpool_head;

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2.39.5