Re: Unaligned accesses in net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c:184

From: David S. Miller
Date: Wed Jun 09 2004 - 15:34:46 EST


On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:29:36 -0600
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Which is probably why the patch never went anywhere. There's
> certainly an alignment issue in the usage of the struct arpt_arp in the
> code snippet Christoph pointed out. Sounds like it'd be better to fix
> the usage than the structure alignment.

Right. I distinctly remember a similar fix being needed to
ip_tables.c many months ago, a search though the change history
for that file might prove profitable :-)
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