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>

diff --git a/drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c b/drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c
index 1ee6fb3..c4f60ce 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c
@@ -1300,10 +1300,16 @@ tap_flow_validate(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 static void
 tap_flow_set_handle(struct rte_flow *flow)
 {
+       union {
+               struct rte_flow *flow;
+               const void *key;
+       } tmp;
        uint32_t handle = 0;
 
+       tmp.flow = flow;
+
        if (sizeof(flow) > 4)
-               handle = rte_jhash(&flow, sizeof(flow), 1);
+               handle = rte_jhash(tmp.key, sizeof(flow), 1);
        else
                handle = (uintptr_t)flow;
        /* must be at least 1 to avoid letting the kernel choose one for us */