netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: remove unaligned accesses from tcp_get

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Message-Id: <20161109.225159.834025521838557967.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 09 Nov 2016 22:51:59 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, ncardwell@...gle.com,
        ycheng@...gle.com, soheil@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: remove unaligned accesses from
 tcp_get_info()

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 11:24:22 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> After commit 6ed46d1247a5 ("sock_diag: align nlattr properly when
> needed"), tcp_get_info() gets 64bit aligned memory, so we can avoid
> the unaligned helpers.
> 
> Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Nice, applied.

Thanks!