[PATCH] tftp.h: rework layout to work with fortification

David Miller davem@davemloft.net
Thu Apr 12 16:41:00 GMT 2012


From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:52:30 +0200

> I wonder what's the use of packing here.  There should be no padding,
> each field has at most short alignment.

I think it's to handle cpus like ARM where a structure containing
smaller than u32 objects will be aligned up to need u32 alignment.

In the Linux kernel we have:

struct nd_opt_hdr {
	__u8		nd_opt_type;
	__u8		nd_opt_len;
} __packed;

to deal with this ARM issue.



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