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From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:29:36 +0000
Subject: Re: Unaligned accesses in net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c:184
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To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:00, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 12:27:56 -0600
> Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> wrote:
> 
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=netfilter-devel&m7814727803971&w=2
> 
> How can you legitimately change this structure?  It's an exported
> userland interface, if you change it all the applications will
> stop working.
> 

   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.

	Alex