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drm: fix EDID struct for old ARM OABI format
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When building the kernel for arm with the "-mabi=apcs-gnu" option, gcc
will force alignment of all structures and unions to a word boundary
(see also STRUCTURE_SIZE_BOUNDARY and the "-mstructure-size-boundary=XX"
option if you're a gcc person), even when the members of said structures
do not want or need said alignment.

This completely messes up the structure alignment of 'struct edid' on
those targets, because even though all the embedded structures are
marked with "__attribute__((packed))", the unions that contain them are
not.

This was exposed by commit f1e4c91 ("drm/edid: add EDID block count
and size helpers"), but the bug is pre-existing.  That commit just made
the structure layout problem cause a build failure due to the addition
of the

        BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(*edid) != EDID_LENGTH);

sanity check in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c:edid_block_data().

This legacy union alignment should probably not be used in the first
place, but we can fix the layout by adding the packed attribute to the
union entries even when each member is already packed and it shouldn't
matter in a sane build environment.

You can see this issue with a trivial test program:

  union {
	struct {
		char c[5];
	};
	struct {
		char d;
		unsigned e;
	} __attribute__((packed));
  } a = { "1234" };

where building this with a normal "gcc -S" will result in the expected
5-byte size of said union:

	.type	a, @object
	.size	a, 5

but with an ARM compiler and the old ABI:

    arm-linux-gnu-gcc -mabi=apcs-gnu -mfloat-abi=soft -S t.c

you get

	.type	a, %object
	.size	a, 8

instead, because even though each member of the union is packed, the
union itself still gets aligned.

This was reported by Sudip for the spear3xx_defconfig target.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YpCUzStDnSgQLNFN@debian/
Reported-by: Sudip Mukherjee <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]>
Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
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torvalds authored and gregkh committed Jun 9, 2022
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions include/drm/drm_edid.h
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Expand Up @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ struct detailed_data_monitor_range {
u8 supported_scalings;
u8 preferred_refresh;
} __attribute__((packed)) cvt;
} formula;
} __attribute__((packed)) formula;
} __attribute__((packed));

struct detailed_data_wpindex {
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struct detailed_data_wpindex color;
struct std_timing timings[6];
struct cvt_timing cvt[4];
} data;
} __attribute__((packed)) data;
} __attribute__((packed));

#define EDID_DETAIL_EST_TIMINGS 0xf7
Expand All @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ struct detailed_timing {
union {
struct detailed_pixel_timing pixel_data;
struct detailed_non_pixel other_data;
} data;
} __attribute__((packed)) data;
} __attribute__((packed));

#define DRM_EDID_INPUT_SERRATION_VSYNC (1 << 0)
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