Re: [PATCH (resend)][EBTABLES]: Fix alignment checks in ebt_among.ko module.

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On Feb 29 2008 13:48, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>> I've sent this patch some days ago to Bart, but with no answer...
>> 
>> When trying to do
>> 
>>  # ebtables -A FORWARD --among-src 0:12:34:56:78:9a=192.168.0.10 -j ACCEPT
>> 
>> on x86_64 box the ebt_among->check() callback warns me that
>> 
>>  ebtables: among: wrong size: 1060 against expected 1056, rounded to 1056
>> [...]
>
> It seems the kernel is correct and userspace is doing it
> wrong, so I think userspace should be fixed instead.
> The problem with your patch is that is causes misalignment
> for following structures that contain u64 members.

ebt_among is a true mess! It hinders my efforts to port ebtables
to xtables, but I could of course use a hack and will likely
do just that.
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