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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: drzeus@drzeus.cx
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net: alignment problem in icmp code
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:12:57 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071020.221257.78359286.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071020233540.43d2f103@poseidon.drzeus.cx>

From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:35:40 +0200

> Structure assignment have to be aligned just like any assignment, and the skb could point to anything. So take the safe route and use a memcpy().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>

Unfortunately this doesn't work, GCC can inline the memcpy just like
the assignment.

I tried to use a similar trick in the net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c code
but in the end it doesn't work at all.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-21  5:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-20 21:35 net: alignment problem in icmp code Pierre Ossman
2007-10-21  5:12 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-10-21  9:34   ` Pierre Ossman
2007-10-21 19:48     ` David Miller
2007-10-21 21:21       ` Pierre Ossman
2007-10-21 23:02         ` David Miller
2007-10-22  4:54           ` Pierre Ossman
2007-10-22  5:15             ` David Miller
2007-10-22  7:23               ` Pierre Ossman
2007-10-22  8:31                 ` David Miller
2007-10-22  8:42                   ` Pierre Ossman
2007-10-22  9:05                     ` David Miller
2007-10-22  9:26                       ` Pierre Ossman
2007-10-22  9:52                         ` Eric Dumazet

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