Re: [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v2] hw/s390/ccw.c: Don't take address of packed members

[Cornelia Huck]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 12:02:52 +0000
Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:

> Taking the address of a field in a packed struct is a bad idea, because
> it might not be actually aligned enough for that pointer type (and
> thus cause a crash on dereference on some host architectures). Newer
> versions of clang warn about this.
> 
> Avoid the problem by using local copies of the PMCW and SCSW
> struct fields in copy_schib_from_guest() and copy_schib_to_guest().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> ---
> v1->v2 changes:
>  * add comment about why we're using locals
>  * name locals with underscores, as QEMU's naming conventions recommend
> 
> 
>  hw/s390x/css.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Thanks, applied.