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Re: alignment issues on netif_rx

To: Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: alignment issues on netif_rx
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:36:12 +0100
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>, kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20001216135124.A1045@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; from johannes@xxxxxxxxxxx on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 04:21:14PM +0100
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012151332190.32035-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <200012151606.IAA20579@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20001216135124.A1045@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 04:21:14PM +0100, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> 
> However, I can't imagine we've made it this long without this being a
> problem so there must be something I'm missing.

Nobody apparently tried to use IPX on IA64 yet (due to a different ethernet
header length it usually has to deal with an misaligned header)

With this there are also plenty of ways to crash an IA64 box remotely,
e.g. by putting misaligned timestamps into options. 


-Andi

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