can: uapi: can.h: mark union inside struct can_frame packed
In commit ea780056 ("can: add optional DLC element to Classical CAN frame structure") the struct can_frame::can_dlc was put into an anonymous union with another u8 variable. For various reasons some members in struct can_frame and canfd_frame including the first 8 byes of data are expected to have the same memory layout. This is enforced by a BUILD_BUG_ON check in af_can.c. Since the above mentioned commit this check fails on ARM kernels compiled with the ARM OABI (which means CONFIG_AEABI not set). In this case -mabi=apcs-gnu is passed to the compiler, which leads to a structure size boundary of 32, instead of 8 compared to CONFIG_AEABI enabled. This means the the union in struct can_frame takes 4 bytes instead of the expected 1. Rong Chen illustrates the problem with pahole in the ARM OABI case: | struct can_frame { | canid_t can_id; /* 0 4 */ | union { | __u8 ...
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