When sending between processes, we always schedule a work item. Our work info struct has the message embedded in the middle, which means that we end up overwriting subsequent fields when we copy the (variable-length) message into it. Move it to the end of the struct. Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor at vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andy King <acking at vmware.com> --- drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c index ed5c433..f3cdd90 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c +++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c @@ -42,9 +42,11 @@ struct datagram_entry { struct delayed_datagram_info { struct datagram_entry *entry; - struct vmci_datagram msg; struct work_struct work; bool in_dg_host_queue; + /* msg and msg_payload must be together. */ + struct vmci_datagram msg; + u8 msg_payload[]; }; /* Number of in-flight host->host datagrams */ -- 1.7.4.1