Re: conflicting alignment requirements

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 06:40:27PM +0200, Jacob Avraham wrote:
> #if !defined(__i386__) && !defined(__mc68000__)
>       if ((unsigned long)ptr & 3)
>               return -1;
> #endif

As far as I can see this code is wrong: all architectures should be able to 
handle
unaligned accesses in kernel, otherwise they're remotely exploitable anyways.
I guess you can just drop the ifdef, and if it should break anything complain
to the maintainer of the architecture.


-Andi



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