Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] r8169: Avoid pointer aliasing
From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Tue Feb 05 2019 - 15:23:22 EST
On 02/05/2019 12:18 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> I still think adding __align(<even#>) is unnecessary here unless
> it follows something like a bool or a u8.
This would be some historical side effect, and we do not want to rely on that.
A security feature could in fact ask a compiler to perform random
shuffling of automatic variables.
( a la __randomize_layout )