Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Unaligned accesses in net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c:184 | From | Alex Williamson <> | Date | Wed, 09 Jun 2004 12:27:56 -0600 |
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A patch for this was sent to the netfilter-devel list a while back, see this link:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=netfilter-devel&m=107814727803971&w=2
I don't think the patch ever made it anywhere so far.
Alex
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 12:09, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The following code casts pointers to char to long in order to do a fast > comparison. This causes alignment errors on IA64 and likely also on > other platforms: > > /* Look for ifname matches; this should unroll nicely. */ > for (i = 0, ret = 0; i < IFNAMSIZ/sizeof(unsigned long); i++) { > ret |= (((const unsigned long *)indev)[i] > ^ ((const unsigned long *)arpinfo->iniface)[i]) > & ((const unsigned long *)arpinfo->iniface_mask)[i]; > } > > iniface is a pointer to char. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >
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