net/tap: fix build with GCC 11
authorFerruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Tue, 11 May 2021 13:14:35 +0000 (14:14 +0100)
committerFerruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Wed, 12 May 2021 12:54:16 +0000 (14:54 +0200)
commita625ab89df114bb813a9c8bc3ee3a8f5735bd5fe
tree1877752cfa24076cad285072e326c79bd550caf0
parent97de3819ed93f4b3a71e429147a7e6a435789ab2
net/tap: fix build with GCC 11

Reproduced with '--buildtype=debugoptimized' config,
compiler version: gcc (GCC) 12.0.0 20210509 (experimental)

There are multiple build errors, like:
In file included from ../drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c:13:
In function ‘rte_jhash_2hashes’,
    inlined from ‘rte_jhash’ at ../lib/hash/rte_jhash.h:284:2,
    inlined from ‘tap_flow_set_handle’ at
../drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c:1306:12,
    inlined from ‘rss_enable’ at ../drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c:1909:3,
    inlined from ‘priv_flow_process’ at
../drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c:1228:11:
../lib/hash/rte_jhash.h:238:9:
warning: ‘flow’ may be used uninitialized [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
  238 |         __rte_jhash_2hashes(key, length, pc, pb, 1);
      |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c: In function ‘priv_flow_process’:
../lib/hash/rte_jhash.h:81:1: note: by argument 1 of type ‘const void *’
to ‘__rte_jhash_2hashes.constprop’ declared here
 81 | __rte_jhash_2hashes(const void *key, uint32_t length, uint32_t *pc,
    | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c:1028:1: note: ‘flow’ declared here
 1028 | priv_flow_process(struct pmd_internals *pmd,
      | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fix strict aliasing rule by using union.

Bugzilla ID: 690
Fixes: de96fe68ae95 ("net/tap: add basic flow API patterns and actions")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c