Re: [PATCH net v2 1/4] net/core: relax BUILD_BUG_ON in netdev_stats_to_stats64
From: Jarod Wilson
Date: Sun Jan 31 2016 - 13:07:13 EST
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 03:26:35PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 15:53:05 -0500
>
> > On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 03:39:01PM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> >> Ew, no, it won't work correctly on 32-bit. The for loop is going to copy
> >> data into dst from beyond the end of netdev_stats, and the range looks
> >> like it won't be right either, only half of the added stats64 space will
> >> get zeroed out. Okay, I'll fix that up correctly.
> >
> > Completely untested as of yet, but I think something like the following
> > looks correct. I'll give it a spin as soon as I can.
>
> Jarod, please respin your entire series as a v3 once you sort this out.
Will do. I should be able to get it tested out on a 32-bit setup Monday.
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Jarod Wilson
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