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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	thierry.reding@gmail.com
Cc: hkallweit1@gmail.com, andrew@lunn.ch, nic_swsd@realtek.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] r8169: Avoid pointer aliasing
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 12:18:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4aea523a3bc5be0d944f7ed9fadac276b7115002.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca6ca816-af03-e1f9-739a-a06cc4837b80@gmail.com>

On Tue, 2019-02-05 at 12:04 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> On 02/05/2019 10:42 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > It's declared after a pointer so it is already is 2 byte aligned.
> > 
> > A lot of drivers wouldn't work otherwise.
> 
> Maybe these drivers are only used on arches where this does not matter.

Possible.

I had only grepped through the sources looking for
declarations using:

$ git grep -B1 '\[ETH_ALEN\];' -- '*.c' | grep -A1 '\*'

It's quite a few files in net/ too btw.

I still think adding __align(<even#>) is unnecessary here unless
it follows something like a bool or a u8.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-05 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-04 16:42 [PATCH v2 1/2] r8169: Load MAC address from device tree if present Thierry Reding
2019-02-04 16:42 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] r8169: Avoid pointer aliasing Thierry Reding
2019-02-04 16:59   ` Andrew Lunn
2019-02-04 18:44   ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-02-05  3:20   ` David Miller
2019-02-05 18:42     ` Joe Perches
2019-02-05 19:14       ` David Miller
2019-02-05 19:19         ` Joe Perches
2019-02-06  7:25           ` Michal Kubecek
2019-02-05 20:04       ` Eric Dumazet
2019-02-05 20:18         ` Joe Perches [this message]
2019-02-05 20:23           ` Eric Dumazet
2019-02-05 20:23           ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-02-04 19:30 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] r8169: Load MAC address from device tree if present Heiner Kallweit
2019-02-06  2:27 [PATCH v2 2/2] r8169: Avoid pointer aliasing Paul Zimmerman
2019-02-06  2:52 ` Joe Perches
2019-02-06  3:25   ` Paul Zimmerman
2019-02-06  3:49     ` Joe Perches

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