From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 11:37:56 -0200
> __packed is considered harmful as it potentially generates code that
> doesn't perform well and its usage should be avoided as much as
> possible.
>
> This patch drops __packed from all SCTP structures except one, which is
> sctp_signed_cookie. In there it's required, as per changelog on
> commit 9834a2bb4970 ("[SCTP]: Fix sctp_cookie alignment in the packet.").
>
> After this patch, no alignment changes neither in x86 or x86_64 and
> no exceptions were noticed during testing on both archs.
>
> Code size for SCTP module also didn't change with this patch.
>
> Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx>
Looks great, thanks so much for following through on this!
Applied.
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