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

From: wuqiang.matt

Date: Thu Feb 12 2026 - 21:16:32 EST


On 2026/2/10 18:35, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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;
>

Reviewed-by: wuqiang.matt <wuqiang.matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,
Matt Wu