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SubjectRe: [PATCH] alignment issue with ipchains
   From: NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@chroot.org>
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 12:18:28 +0900

I'd like to explain my point clearly. My point is that accessing
with get_user as int is questionable. In my case, it's string. I
don't think all the string argment to the kernel should be aligned.

Thank you for the explanation.

I agree with your logic, but not with the fix you sent here before.

I would much rather see a test for the socket option cases that use
the "val", and in those cases do the get_user calls. Ie. something
like:

if (optname == X || optname == Y || optname == Z || ...) {
if(optlen>=sizeof(int)) {
if(get_user(val, (int *) optval))
...
}

Could you send me a patch which fixes the problem in this way?

Thank you.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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