Hi Ilias,
On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 10:37:07PM +0300, Ilias Apalodimas wrote:
Tom reports that when building with clang we see this warning: field guid within 'struct efi_hii_keyboard_layout' is less aligned than 'efi_guid_t' and is usually due to 'struct efi_hii_keyboard_layout' being packed, which can lead to unaligned accesses [-Wunaligned-access]
This happens because 'struct efi_hii_keyboard_layout' is defined as packed while efi_guid_t is 32bit aligned.
There are a couple of 'struct' definitions which are *packed* and contain an 'efi_guid_t' member in efi_api.h. If 'efi_hii_keyboard_layout' is the only place that causes a clang warning, we need a more specific explanation to clarify the problem.
However the EFI spec describes the EFI_GUID as "128-bit buffer containing a unique identifier value. Unless otherwise specified aligned on a 64-bit boundary"
That's right, but this text in this context may sound misleading. (It doesn't explain why 'efi_guid_t' is 32-bit aligned.)
-Takahiro Akashi
So convert the efi_guid_t -> u8 b[16] here and skip the alignment requirements.
Reported-by: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com Suggested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org
include/efi_api.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/efi_api.h b/include/efi_api.h index 2fd0221c1c77..b84b577bd7b5 100644 --- a/include/efi_api.h +++ b/include/efi_api.h @@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ struct efi_key_descriptor {
struct efi_hii_keyboard_layout { u16 layout_length;
- efi_guid_t guid;
- u8 guid[16]; u32 layout_descriptor_string_offset; u8 descriptor_count; /* struct efi_key_descriptor descriptors[]; follows here */
-- 2.39.2