This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled virtchnl: Fix layout of RSS structures to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: virtchnl-fix-layout-of-rss-structures.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f458e2611839010345646af1741a1c66beb22ca2 Author: Norbert Ciosek <norbertx.ciosek@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jan 28 10:17:02 2021 -0800 virtchnl: Fix layout of RSS structures [ Upstream commit 22f8b5df881e9f1302514bbbbbb8649c2051de55 ] Remove padding from RSS structures. Previous layout could lead to unwanted compiler optimizations in loops when iterating over key and lut arrays. Fixes: 65ece6de0114 ("virtchnl: Add missing explicit padding to structures") Signed-off-by: Norbert Ciosek <norbertx.ciosek@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Konrad Jankowski <konrad0.jankowski@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/include/linux/avf/virtchnl.h b/include/linux/avf/virtchnl.h index 40bad71865ea..532bcbfc4716 100644 --- a/include/linux/avf/virtchnl.h +++ b/include/linux/avf/virtchnl.h @@ -476,7 +476,6 @@ struct virtchnl_rss_key { u16 vsi_id; u16 key_len; u8 key[1]; /* RSS hash key, packed bytes */ - u8 pad[1]; }; VIRTCHNL_CHECK_STRUCT_LEN(6, virtchnl_rss_key); @@ -485,7 +484,6 @@ struct virtchnl_rss_lut { u16 vsi_id; u16 lut_entries; u8 lut[1]; /* RSS lookup table */ - u8 pad[1]; }; VIRTCHNL_CHECK_STRUCT_LEN(6, virtchnl_rss_lut);