[PATCH 2/2] efi_loader: Fix warnings on unaligned accesses

Ilias Apalodimas ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org
Thu Apr 6 21:37:07 CEST 2023


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.

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"

So convert the efi_guid_t -> u8 b[16] here and skip the alignment
requirements.

Reported-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
Suggested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas at 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



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