Re: Unaligned accesses in net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c:184

David S. Miller
2004-06-09T20:29:37Z

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 :-)