Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:15:06 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig alignment fix Message-ID: <15444.24522.595616.15614@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020126181352.C75106@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <20020126181352.C75106@cicely8.cicely.de>
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Nice fix. I'm building a new kernel to test your patch now. Any idea exactly what commit introduced this problem? Drew Bernd Walter writes: > > The reason is that struct ifa_msghdr is not n * 8 bytes. > If an interface has an uneven number of addresses it toggles > alignment for the next interface. > I would be more happy when struct ifa_msghdr gets resized, > but that will break binary compatibility. > > -- > B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de > ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de > > --- sys/net/rtsock.c.orig Sat Jan 26 16:59:56 2002 > +++ sys/net/rtsock.c Sat Jan 26 17:00:01 2002 > @@ -664,6 +664,7 @@ > } > len += dlen; > } > + len = _ALIGN(len); > if (cp == 0 && w != NULL && !second_time) { > register struct walkarg *rw = w; > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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