Re: [PATCH 6/10] Re: [2.6-BK-URL] NTFS: 2.1.19 sparse annotation, cleanups and a bugfix

From: viro
Date: Sat Sep 25 2004 - 01:37:03 EST


On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 05:13:53PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> /* Get the starting vcn of the index_block holding the child node. */
> - vcn = sle64_to_cpup((u8*)ie + le16_to_cpu(ie->length) - 8);
> + vcn = sle64_to_cpup((sle64*)((u8*)ie + le16_to_cpu(ie->length) - 8));

I don't like the look of that. Are there any alignment warranties for that
pointer? The same goes for other users of that function...
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