On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:13 -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > I'm looking into that. The good thing is that we have > redundant information, so we can check that things don't match. It's a > bit more complex because some of those take variable parameters. Yeah, and it also only happens with those event streams I think. But I haven't checked other possible places. > > I'd think this is a kernel bug and 32-bit userspace should rightfully be > > able to expect 32-bit aligned structs, no? Actually fixing it in the > > kernel would not be trivial though. > > What we could do is have every 64 bit kernel return things on > a 32 bit boundary, irrespective of userspace used. That would break > current 64 bit userspace. Yeah, the only way to fix the bug without breaking that would be to return different structs for the different userspaces which sounds really complex. johannes
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