From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
thomas@m3y3r.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 3.3-rc4
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:18:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F431B1D.90704@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329794974.2226.11.camel@perseus.themaw.net>
On 02/20/2012 07:29 PM, Ian Kent wrote:
>
> Fix this by adding a new protocol version 6 packet that is packed so that
> it will have the same size on all archectures regardless of alignement.
>
You probably also want to make sure there aren't any holes in it, ever.
Alignment holes not only cause these kinds of problems, but also cause
security holes.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-21 4:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-19 0:27 Linux 3.3-rc4 Linus Torvalds
2012-02-19 13:42 ` Thomas Meyer
2012-02-19 18:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-19 19:49 ` David Miller
2012-02-19 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-20 3:28 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-21 3:29 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-21 3:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 4:02 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-21 4:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 4:52 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-21 5:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 5:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 5:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-21 5:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-21 5:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 5:39 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-21 4:18 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-02-21 4:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-21 13:03 ` Alan Cox
2012-02-21 18:26 ` Use gcc to check exported files [Was: Linux 3.3-rc4] Sam Ravnborg
2012-02-21 18:58 ` Linux 3.3-rc4 Thomas Meyer
2012-02-21 22:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 22:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 23:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-21 23:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-24 10:39 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-02-24 16:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-24 18:01 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-02-24 18:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-29 8:38 ` Jiri Kosina
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