From: Nicolas Dichtel <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 18:58:23 +0200
> Here is a proposal to add more helpers in the libnetlink to manage 64-bit
> alignment issues.
> Note that this series was only tested on x86 by tweeking
> CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS and adding some traces.
>
> The first patch adds helpers for 64bit alignment and other patches
> use them.
>
> We could also add helpers for nla_put_u64() and its variants if needed.
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - remove patch #1
> - split patch #2 (now #1 and #2)
> - add nla_need_padding_for_64bit()
I like it, nice work Nicolas.
Applied to net-next.
I did a quick scan and the following jumped out at me as cases we need
to fix up as well:
1) xfrm_user
2) tcp_info
3) taskstats
4) pkt_{cls,sched}
5) openvswitch
etc.
Most of these are statistic cases just like all of the existing ones
we have fixed so far.
