4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ [ Upstream commit 7c53eb5d87bc21464da4268c3c0c47457b6d9c9b ] During refactor in commit 9e478066eae4 ("mac80211: fix MU-MIMO follow-MAC mode") a new struct 'action' was declared with packed attribute as: struct { struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr hdr; u8 category; u8 action_code; } __packed action; But since struct 'ieee80211_hdr_3addr' is declared with an aligned keyword as: struct ieee80211_hdr { __le16 frame_control; __le16 duration_id; u8 addr1[ETH_ALEN]; u8 addr2[ETH_ALEN]; u8 addr3[ETH_ALEN]; __le16 seq_ctrl; u8 addr4[ETH_ALEN]; } __packed __aligned(2); Solve the ambiguity of placing aligned structure in a packed one by adding the aligned(2) attribute to struct 'action'. This removes the following warning (W=1): net/mac80211/rx.c:234:2: warning: alignment 1 of 'struct <anonymous>' is less than 2 [-Wpacked-not-aligned] Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/rx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c index 7013b37637556..23f6c8baae951 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ static void ieee80211_handle_mu_mimo_mon(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr hdr; u8 category; u8 action_code; - } __packed action; + } __packed __aligned(2) action; if (!sdata) return; -- 2.19.1