netdev - Re: [PATCH net] bonding: prevent out of bound accesses

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Date:	Thu, 30 Jun 2016 16:08:49 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...hat.com>,
	Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bonding: prevent out of bound accesses

On Thu, 2016-06-30 at 15:35 +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:

> 
> What does nm -S say?
> I've tried to compile a sample program with gcc6 and
> __attribute__((aligned(8))) does in fact force alignment of start of
> the symbol, but size still stays 6. (and asan still barks on my test
> program).

Right, but then it means I also need to change mac_bcast[] and
mac_v6_allmcast[] in bond_alb.c to avoid false positive.

(Technically, if their alignment is 8, we have 8 bytes there,
no way it could span 2 pages)

I'll send a v2.