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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:53:26 -0500 (EST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Allow to monitor multicast cache event via rtnetlink From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:02:50 +0100 > Le 04/12/2012 21:02, Nicolas Dichtel a écrit : >> I can have a try on a tile platform. I don't have access to sparc or >> mips. > Hmm, I've read arm instead of mips! So I've tried on mips. Data are > aligned on 32-bit, like for all netlink messages. nla_put_u64() will > do the same, as it calls nla_put(). > > And the kernel will only use memcpy() to treat this attribute. Reader > will be in userland. Then userland will trap if the 64-bit values are only 32-bit aligned. That's the problem I'm talking about. I don't want to export any more unaligned 64-bit values in netlink messages, it's a complete mess. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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