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From: Dmitry Mishin <dim@sw.ru>
Subject: Re: compat_xt_counters is not compatible
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:11:53 +0400
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compat_xt_counters should be used only for 32bit processes, which has 4 byte 
alignment.

On Friday 14 April 2006 21:12, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> struct compat_xt_counters uses uint32_t[4], which has 4 byte alignment,
> but userspace uses uint64_t[2], which has 8 byte alignment.  This breaks
> iptables in 2.6.17-rc1.
>
> Andreas.

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Thanks,
Dmitry.