netdev - Re: [Patch 4/5] Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation & Netlink protocol

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Message-ID: <20090402145952.GA1276@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 2 Apr 2009 22:59:52 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, nhorman@...driver.com,
	zbr@...emap.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
	pekkas@...core.fi, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 4/5] Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor
	implementation & Netlink protocol

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 04:57:36PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
> I didn't spot the problem, it seems it alreay copies all (sub)structures
> that have larger alignment requirements.

Oh no I didn't mean that xfrm_userpolicy_info has a problem, for
all I know it might not even have a u64 inside :)

If we can ensure that all netlink backends use the helpers that
copy, even for structures then it should definitely work.

Thanks,
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