netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] ss: better 32bit support

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Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:29:14 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Cc:	'Ben Hutchings' <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemming@...cade.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ss: better 32bit support

On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 16:39 +0000, David Laight wrote:

> I wondered if the code should be reading the value in the host's natural
> endianness?
> Then the code might be optimisable to:
> 	return *(unsigned long long *)cookie;

This will trap on arches requesting 8 bytes alignment.

Not all linux hosts run x86

Look at rta_getattr_u64(), and you'll see that manipulating 64bit values
in netlink requires a memcpy() because we have no 64bit alignment
guarantee.

> which rather begs the question as to why cookie is uint32_t[2] instead of
> uint64_t.
> 

This question comes too late, inet_diag was added years ago,
and we must keep ABI compatibility forever.



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