Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:54:28 +0200 |
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On Friday 15 June 2007 14:54:20 Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > The network code requires unaligned accesses to work anyways so if your > > > > architecture doesn't support them it is already remotely crashable. > > > > > > I thought we'd fixed all that. > > > > Did you audit the complete network stack? > > For the parts used by the processors in question yes
That means? They're expected to run only a subset of the network stack? Is that expressed in Kconfig? Is it documented that the rest is dangerous?
> people have done > that work so using the types without unaligned.
Very brave; we're talking about around half a million lines of non trivial source code here.
-Andi
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