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

From: Chris Wedgwood
Date: Wed Jun 09 2004 - 20:46:58 EST


On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:00:01PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

> How can you legitimately change this structure? It's an exported
> userland interface, if you change it all the applications will stop
> working.

Why not split the structure for user-space and kernel-space version
and cp/frob at/near the syscall boundary?



--cw
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