netdev - Re: net: alignment problem in icmp code

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Date:	Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:12:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	drzeus@...eus.cx
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net: alignment problem in icmp code

From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@...eus.cx>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:35:40 +0200

> Structure assignment have to be aligned just like any assignment, and the skb could point to anything. So take the safe route and use a memcpy().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@...eus.cx>

Unfortunately this doesn't work, GCC can inline the memcpy just like
the assignment.

I tried to use a similar trick in the net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c code
but in the end it doesn't work at all.
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