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-rw-r--r--include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h16
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h b/include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h
index 59ff6c430cf..6500d4e59d4 100644
--- a/include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h
+++ b/include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h
@@ -19,7 +19,21 @@ struct xt_get_revision
/* For standard target */
#define XT_RETURN (-NF_REPEAT - 1)
-#define XT_ALIGN(s) (((s) + (__alignof__(u_int64_t)-1)) & ~(__alignof__(u_int64_t)-1))
+/* this is a dummy structure to find out the alignment requirement for a struct
+ * containing all the fundamental data types that are used in ipt_entry,
+ * ip6t_entry and arpt_entry. This sucks, and it is a hack. It will be my
+ * personal pleasure to remove it -HW
+ */
+struct _xt_align
+{
+ u_int8_t u8;
+ u_int16_t u16;
+ u_int32_t u32;
+ u_int64_t u64;
+};
+
+#define XT_ALIGN(s) (((s) + (__alignof__(struct _xt_align)-1)) \
+ & ~(__alignof__(struct _xt_align)-1))
/* Standard return verdict, or do jump. */
#define XT_STANDARD_TARGET ""