Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:14:42 -0700 | | Subject | Re: [tip:x86/x32] x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo | | From | "H.J. Lu" <> |
| |
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:09 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > On 04/18/2012 04:54 PM, H.J. Lu wrote: >>> >>> We could. If we want to align the substructures then we need some major >>> surgery to the compat_siginfo handling though. >>> >> >> Since there will be no x32 kernel, align struct siginfo to 8byte for x32 >> will only be for user space code. It shouldn't be a problem for kernel. >> > > Well, for aligning the whole structure I don't think there is any change > to the kernel at all... >
That is true. This is only by user codes to pass 8bye aligned struct siginfo pointer to kernel.
-- H.J. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |