From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, davem@davemloft•net,
roopa@cumulusnetworks•com, tgraf@suug•ch, jhs@mojatatu•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] netlink: fix test alignment in nla_align_64bit()
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 11:44:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57174F8E.6050201@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1461144802.10638.249.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>
Le 20/04/2016 11:33, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
[snip]
> How have you tested your patch exactly ?
As stated in the cover letter, I didn't test it.
>
> I guess David should have copied his original comment here.
>
> - * The nlattr header is 4 bytes in size, that's why we test
> - * if the skb->data _is_ aligned. This NOP attribute, plus
> - * nlattr header for IFLA_STATS64, will make nla_data() 8-byte
> - * aligned.
>
>
I knew I was missing something, thanks for the explanation.
All other patches of this series need to be updated, I will do it if there is
no other comment.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-20 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-18 21:10 [PATCH net-next v5] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-18 21:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19 0:57 ` David Miller
2016-04-19 1:48 ` David Miller
2016-04-19 2:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19 2:40 ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-19 3:49 ` David Miller
2016-04-19 3:52 ` David Miller
2016-04-19 10:09 ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-19 10:48 ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2016-04-19 18:23 ` David Miller
2016-04-19 19:41 ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-20 1:53 ` David Ahern
2016-04-20 7:32 ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-20 12:48 ` Jiri Benc
2016-04-20 13:17 ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-20 13:34 ` Jiri Benc
2016-04-20 20:13 ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-19 2:30 ` roopa
2016-04-19 3:41 ` David Miller
2016-04-19 4:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19 4:32 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19 5:03 ` David Miller
2016-04-19 18:31 ` David Miller
2016-04-19 18:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19 18:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19 19:08 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-19 23:50 ` David Miller
2016-04-20 3:54 ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-20 8:57 ` [PATCH net-next 0/4] libnl: enhance API to ease 64bit alignment for attribute Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-20 8:57 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] netlink: fix test alignment in nla_align_64bit() Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-20 9:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-20 9:44 ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2016-04-20 9:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-20 10:14 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-20 14:31 ` [PATCH net-next] net: fix HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS typos Eric Dumazet
2016-04-20 15:03 ` David Miller
2016-04-20 8:57 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] libnl: add more helpers to align attribute on 64-bit Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-20 8:57 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] ipmr: align RTA_MFC_STATS " Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-20 8:57 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] ip6mr: " Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 16:58 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] libnl: enhance API to ease 64bit alignment for attribute Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 16:58 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] libnl: add more helpers to align attributes on 64-bit Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 16:58 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] rtnl: use the new API to align IFLA_STATS* Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 16:58 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] ipmr: align RTA_MFC_STATS on 64-bit Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 16:58 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] ip6mr: " Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 18:28 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] libnl: enhance API to ease 64bit alignment for attribute David Miller
2016-04-21 22:00 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-22 5:31 ` David Miller
2016-04-19 19:05 ` [PATCH net-next v5] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-19 22:49 ` David Miller
2016-04-20 3:53 ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-19 4:43 ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-19 7:45 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-19 16:00 ` David Miller
2016-04-19 8:26 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-19 19:55 ` Paul Moore
2016-04-19 20:40 ` Roopa Prabhu
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