On 02/20/2012 12:01 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 18:29, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Not really... it comes down to "implicit padding in kernel ABI structures is bad". They can easily become security holes. > > On 64-bit platforms with natural alignment of long, there's an implicit padding. > We should try to make those explicit, but it sometimes gets hard retroactively. Note that the particular patch you're pointing to is just an identity patch. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
