Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Unaligned accesses in net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c:184 | From | Alex Williamson <> | Date | Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:29:36 -0600 |
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On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:00, David S. Miller wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 12:27:56 -0600 > Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> wrote: > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=netfilter-devel&m=107814727803971&w=2 > > How can you legitimately change this structure? It's an exported > userland interface, if you change it all the applications will > stop working. >
Which is probably why the patch never went anywhere. There's certainly an alignment issue in the usage of the struct arpt_arp in the code snippet Christoph pointed out. Sounds like it'd be better to fix the usage than the structure alignment.
Alex
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