# Re: sparc64 verifier failures..

- From: David Miller \<davem@davemloft.net\>
- Date: 2017-12-20 16:17:59 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2017/12/11077519
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2017/12/11077330/t.md

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From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:05:36 +0100

> On 12/19/2017 09:36 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> 
>> I'm getting about 100 verifier failures on sparc64.
>> 
>> The vast majority of them seem to be due to misaligned packet
>> accesses.  Here is a sample of some of the failures.
> 
> Thanks, I'll check it next days. It would probably make sense to have
> a --strict-align mode for test_verifier that enables it on all tests
> unconditionally so selftests suite would always run in both modes (at
> least on archs that don't have this restriction).

Indeed, and for some reason I thought we were already doing this.
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