Jeremy Sowden <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Some bitwise operations are generated in user space when munging paylod > expressions. During delinearization, user space attempts to eliminate > these operations. However, it does this before deducing the byte-order > or the correct length in bits of the operands, which means that it > doesn't always handle multi-byte host-endian operations correctly. > Therefore, add support for storing the bit-length of the expression, > even though the kernel doesn't use it, in order to be able to pass it > back to user space. Can rule udata be used for this, or is that too much work? The udata infra is already used to store comments and it would not need kernel changes.
