[RFC] ebtable_replace alignment padding

Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.devel
Organization Open Source Development Lab
Message-ID <20040616160221.5990e962@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>
Sparse found this problem.  The data portion of ebt_entries structure is
aligned to ebt_replace.  But ebt_replace comes out to 62 bytes (on i386).

The simple fix is to pad ebt_replace so it is 64 bytes, but not sure if 
breaks anything.

diff -Nru a/include/linux/netfilter_bridge/ebtables.h b/include/linux/netfilter_bridge/ebtables.h
--- a/include/linux/netfilter_bridge/ebtables.h	2004-06-16 16:00:03 -07:00
+++ b/include/linux/netfilter_bridge/ebtables.h	2004-06-16 16:00:03 -07:00
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@
 	unsigned int num_counters;
 	/* where the kernel will put the old counters */
 	struct ebt_counter *counters;
+	/* pad to make sizeof(ebt_replace) a power of 2 */
+	void	*pad;
+
 	char *entries;
 };
 


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