From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756192Ab1LELVp (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2011 06:21:45 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:8290 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756022Ab1LELVm (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2011 06:21:42 -0500 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <1323014582.7454.121.camel@deadeye> References: <1323014582.7454.121.camel@deadeye> <20111129234258.13625.21153.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20111129234348.13625.33435.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> To: Ben Hutchings Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, keyrings@linux-nfs.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com, zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com, alan.cox@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/16] PGP: Add definitions (RFC 4880) and packet parser [ver #2] Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:21:26 +0000 Message-ID: <32725.1323084086@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ben Hutchings wrote: > I'm a little uneasy about these structure definitions. There have been > C ABIs that set the structure alignment to at least 4 by default. It > may be better to play safe by declaring them '__packed'. Yeah. I'll add that. David