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Re: [Patch 1/1] wext: fix 32/64 bit alignment issue for 'point' type

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On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 12:25 +0200, Gerrit Renker wrote:
> wireless: fix alignment problem
> 
> With the current definition, IW_EV_POINT_PK_LEN is 12 on 64-bit and 8 on 32-bit systems,
> due to the way struct iw_event is packed (24 byte on 64-bit systems instead of 20 byte
> on 32-bit systems). Furthermore, the iwe_stream_add_point() in include/net/iw_handler.h
> also uses IW_EV_LCP_PK_LEN as header length. 
> 
> The current definition appears to be a typo (PK_LEN instead of LEN); it causes 
> misalignment on 64 bit systems.

So, correct me if I'm wrong, the only effect this change has is changing
the second memcpy() in iwe_stream_add_point() to not copy an extra 4
bytes that will be overwritten right away by the next memcpy()
(presumably, unless the data is < 4, in which case the memcpy might
actually be out of bounds).

Where's the misalignment issue?

johannes

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