On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Moni Shoua <monis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> --- a/include/rdma/ib_addr.h >> +++ b/include/rdma/ib_addr.h >> @@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ static inline int rdma_ip2gid(struct sockaddr *addr, union ib_gid *gid) >> (struct in6_addr *)gid); >> break; >> case AF_INET6: >> - memcpy(gid->raw, &((struct sockaddr_in6 *)addr)->sin6_addr, 16); >> + *(struct in6_addr *)&gid->raw = >> + ((struct sockaddr_in6 *)addr)->sin6_addr; >> break; >> default: >> return -EINVAL; > what happens if you replace 16 with sizeof(struct in6_addr)? Same thing: the problem is that gcc already knows the size of the structure we pass in here, and it is in fact shorter. I also tried changing the struct sockaddr pointer to a sockaddr_storage pointer, without success. Other approaches that do work are: - mark addr_event() as "noinline" to prevent gcc from seeing the true size of the inetaddr_event stack object in rdma_ip2gid(). I considered this a little ugly. - change inetaddr_event to put a larger structure on the stack, using sockaddr_storage or sockaddr_in6. This would be less efficient. - define a union of sockaddr_in and sockaddr_in6, and use that as the argument to rdma_ip2gid/rdma_gid2ip, and change all callers to use that union type. This is probably the cleanest approach as it gets rid of a lot of questionable type casts, but it's a relatively large patch and also slightly less efficient as we have to zero more stack storage in some cases. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html