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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:29:37 +0000
Subject: Re: Unaligned accesses in net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c:184
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To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
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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 :-)