[parisc-linux] misaligned data

[John David Anglin]

>         ldd 52(%r3),%r19		# line 2347 is misaligned.

> 	std %r25,52(%r3)		# also misaligned
> 
> Based on the math, looks like %r25 has the "seconds" field and %r19
> the microseconds.
> 
> Oh, only one definition and usage of tv_add().
> The offending field is "&cookie->c.expiration".
> cookie is type "sctp_signed_cookie_t". (include/net/sctp/structs.h)
> 
> /* The format of our cookie that we send to our peer. */
> typedef struct sctp_signed_cookie {
>         __u8 signature[SCTP_SECRET_SIZE];
> 	sctp_cookie_t c;
> } sctp_signed_cookie_t;
> 
> struct sctp_cookie mostly uses __u32 except for "struct timeval expiration".
> "struct timeval" is declared in include/linux/time.h.
> Not sure if it's safe to just pad "struct sctp_cookie" or if something
> else needs to be done.

I'd wonder more about the packed attribute on sctp_init_chunk_t and
sctp_inithdr_t.  What version of gcc?

Dave
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