From: Yuval Mintz
> Sent: 06 November 2016 15:12
 
> Driver uses a union for copying data to & from management firmware
> when interacting with it.
> Problem is that the function always copies sizeof(union) while commit
> 2edbff8dcb5d ("qed: Learn resources from management firmware") is casting
> a union elements which is of smaller size [24-byte instead of 88-bytes].
> 
> Also, the union contains some inappropriate elements which increase its
> size [should have been 32-bytes]. While this shouldn't corrupt other
> PF messages to the MFW [as management firmware enforces permissions so
> that each PF is allowed to write only to its own mailbox] we fix this
> here as well.
...

Is it worth adding a compile-time assert on the size of the union?

        David


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