[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 1/8] openvswitch.h: Note that 64 bit ints are 4-aligned.

Jarno Rajahalme jrajahalme at nicira.com
Tue Apr 29 00:36:36 UTC 2014


Pushed to master,

  Jarno

On Apr 25, 2014, at 1:47 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme at nicira.com> wrote:
>> In general, all Netlink 64-bit data may be 4-byte aligned, due to
>> netlink header and attributes being 4-aligned.
>> 
>> To avoid unaligned access the data should be copied out of the netlink
>> attribute before access.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme at nicira.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>




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