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 <d...@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy King <ack...@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

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