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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jengelh@medozas.de
Cc: ljaenicke@innominate.com, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] netfilter: nf_ct_tcp: pack nf_ct_tcp_flags to match user space
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:41:16 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100309.094116.10935277.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.01.1003091802060.3823@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>

From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 18:03:02 +0100 (CET)

> On Tuesday 2010-03-09 17:48, Lutz Jaenicke wrote:
> 
>>On some platforms (here: Intel IXP4xx ARM big endian)
>>sizeof(struct nf_ct_tcp_flags) evaluates to 4 bytes while in the user
>>space code 2 bytes is hard coded.
> 
> Why does it evaluate to 4 bytes? That seems to go against all good C 
> practice.

It's just what the ARM ABI does.

We have to do something similar in the IPV6 stack for
the same reason.

struct nd_opt_hdr {
	__u8		nd_opt_type;
	__u8		nd_opt_len;
} __attribute__((__packed__));


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-09 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-09 16:48 [PATCH 0/1] Adjust nfnetlink structure size between kernel and user space Lutz Jaenicke
2010-03-09 16:48 ` [PATCH 1/1] netfilter: nf_ct_tcp: pack nf_ct_tcp_flags to match " Lutz Jaenicke
2010-03-09 17:02   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-03-09 17:18     ` Lutz Jaenicke
2010-03-09 17:03   ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-09 17:17     ` Lutz Jaenicke
2010-03-09 17:41     ` David Miller [this message]
2011-12-30 11:43   ` Lutz Jaenicke
2011-12-31 15:45     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-03-09 18:05 [PATCH 0/1] Adjust nfnetlink structure size between kernel and " Lutz Jaenicke
2010-03-09 18:05 ` [PATCH 1/1] netfilter: nf_ct_tcp: pack nf_ct_tcp_flags to match " Lutz Jaenicke
2010-03-15 16:57   ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-15 18:04     ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-15 19:03     ` David Miller

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