Union v4l2_event::u is aligned to 8 bytes on arm32. On arm64 v4l2_event32::u
is aligned to 4 bytes. As a result structures v4l2_event and v4l2_event32 have
different sizes and VIDOC_DQEVENT ioctl does not work from arm32 apps running
on arm64 kernel. The patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.ha...@samsung.com>
---
Hi Hans,

It seems there is problem with VIDIOC_DQEVENT called from arm32 apps on arm64
kernel. After tracking down the issue it seems v4l2_event32 on arm64 have
different field alignment/size than v4l2_event on arm32. The patch fixes it.
But i guess it can break ABI on other architectures. Simple tests shows:

i386:
sizeof(struct v4l2_event)=0x78
offsetof(struct v4l2_event::u)=0x4

amd64:
sizeof(struct v4l2_event)=0x88
offsetof(struct v4l2_event::u)=0x8

arm:
sizeof(struct v4l2_event)=0x80
offsetof(struct v4l2_event::u)=0x8

arm64:
sizeof(struct v4l2_event)=0x88
offsetof(struct v4l2_event::u)=0x8

Any advices how to fix it in arch compatible way?

Regards
Andrzej
---
 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c 
b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c
index af63543..a4a1856 100644
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c
+++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c
@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ struct v4l2_event32 {
        __u32                           type;
        union {
                __u8                    data[64];
-       } u;
+       } u __attribute__((aligned(8)));
        __u32                           pending;
        __u32                           sequence;
        struct compat_timespec          timestamp;
-- 
1.9.1

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