From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>, <thomas@monjalon.net>, <techboard@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: announce changes in structure alignments for UBSan
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 13:49:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aG5lRP_JL3b5xl3V@bricha3-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250709124022.4105481-1-david.marchand@redhat.com>
On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 02:40:22PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> As part of the effort to limit undefined behaviors in DPDK code, some
> structure alignments revealed not to be accurate enough.
> At the moment two structures have been identified but others may be
> found while running more parts of DPDK with UBSan.
>
> Though the calling code can explicitly request alignment,
> we would prefer to put the alignment constraints as part of the
> structure definition itself.
>
> Such changes are ABI breakages.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
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2025-07-09 12:40 David Marchand
2025-07-09 12:49 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2025-07-09 12:58 ` Morten Brørup
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