From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: clameter@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unaligned accesses in net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c:184
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:29:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040609132937.68866dfc.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1086812976.4288.50.camel@tdi>
On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:29:36 -0600
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> wrote:
> Which is probably why the patch never went anywhere. There's
> certainly an alignment issue in the usage of the struct arpt_arp in the
> code snippet Christoph pointed out. Sounds like it'd be better to fix
> the usage than the structure alignment.
Right. I distinctly remember a similar fix being needed to
ip_tables.c many months ago, a search though the change history
for that file might prove profitable :-)
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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: clameter@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unaligned accesses in net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c:184
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 13:29:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040609132937.68866dfc.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1086812976.4288.50.camel@tdi>
On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:29:36 -0600
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> wrote:
> Which is probably why the patch never went anywhere. There's
> certainly an alignment issue in the usage of the struct arpt_arp in the
> code snippet Christoph pointed out. Sounds like it'd be better to fix
> the usage than the structure alignment.
Right. I distinctly remember a similar fix being needed to
ip_tables.c many months ago, a search though the change history
for that file might prove profitable :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-09 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-09 18:09 Unaligned accesses in net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c:184 Christoph Lameter
2004-06-09 18:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-06-09 18:27 ` Alex Williamson
2004-06-09 18:27 ` Alex Williamson
2004-06-09 20:00 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-09 20:00 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-09 20:29 ` Alex Williamson
2004-06-09 20:29 ` Alex Williamson
2004-06-09 20:29 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-06-09 20:29 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-09 21:33 ` Harald Welte
2004-06-09 21:33 ` Harald Welte
2004-06-09 21:52 ` Alex Williamson
2004-06-09 21:52 ` Alex Williamson
2004-06-10 1:45 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-10 1:45 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-10 5:46 ` Harald Welte
2004-06-10 5:46 ` Harald Welte
2004-06-11 5:04 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-11 5:04 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-11 5:41 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-06-11 5:41 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-06-11 5:40 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-11 5:40 ` David S. Miller
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