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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.


  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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