alignment faults in 3.6
Benjamin LaHaise
bcrl at kvack.org
Fri Oct 12 10:22:54 EDT 2012
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 02:08:12PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> So yes, we built network stack with the prereq that IP headers are
> aligned, but unfortunately many developers use x86 which doesnt care, so
> its possible some bugs are added.
x86 does have an alignment check flag that can be set in the flags register.
Somehow, I doubt anyone would be willing to walk through all the noise the
faults would likely trigger.
-ben
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