Re: [PATCH] sys_sendmsg() alignment bug fix

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> wrote:
>
>    The patch below adds an alignment attribute to the buffer used in
> sys_sendmsg().  This eliminates an unaligned access warning on ia64.
> 

Vaguely surprised that the compiler cannot be taught to do this.

> 
> diff -r db9b9552a2b4 net/socket.c
> --- a/net/socket.c	Sat Sep 24 23:56:08 2005
> +++ b/net/socket.c	Mon Sep 26 13:44:09 2005
> @@ -1700,7 +1700,9 @@
>  	struct socket *sock;
>  	char address[MAX_SOCK_ADDR];
>  	struct iovec iovstack[UIO_FASTIOV], *iov = iovstack;
> -	unsigned char ctl[sizeof(struct cmsghdr) + 20];	/* 20 is size of ipv6_pktinfo */
> +	unsigned char ctl[sizeof(struct cmsghdr) + 20]
> +	                  __attribute__ ((aligned (sizeof(__kernel_size_t))));
> +	                  /* 20 is size of ipv6_pktinfo */
>  	unsigned char *ctl_buf = ctl;
>  	struct msghdr msg_sys;
>  	int err, ctl_len, iov_size, total_len;

OK, thanks - I'll send this on to davem.  It seems odd to be using
__kernel_size_t rather than size_t, but that's what struct cmshdr does
(also oddly).