netdev - RE: [PATCH 24/27] netfilter: guarantee 8 byte minalign for template addresses

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Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2017 10:08:17 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Pablo Neira Ayuso' <pablo@...filter.org>,
        "netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org" <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 24/27] netfilter: guarantee 8 byte minalign for template
 addresses

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso
> Sent: 03 February 2017 12:26
> The next change will merge skb->nfct pointer and skb->nfctinfo
> status bits into single skb->_nfct (unsigned long) area.
> 
> For this to work nf_conn addresses must always be aligned at least on
> an 8 byte boundary since we will need the lower 3bits to store nfctinfo.

Don't do it then.
You are using a bit somewhere else to allow you to use a 'hack'
that stores 3 status bits into the bottom of an address where there
are only 2 'available' bits.
That sounds like it just adds code everywhere.
I suspect you'll regret doing it later on as well.

	David