What about a union?
///jon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, 29 June, 2018 09:58
> To: Mohan Krishna Ghanta Krishnamurthy 
> <[email protected]>; tipc-
> [email protected]; Jon Maloy <[email protected]>; 
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> Cc: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [net-next 2/3] tipc: implement socket diagnostics for AF_TIPC
> 
> 
> 
> On 03/21/2018 06:37 AM, GhantaKrishnamurthy MohanKrishna wrote:
> > This commit adds socket diagnostics capability for AF_TIPC in netlink
> > family NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG in a new kernel module (diag.ko).
> 
> ...
> > +static u64 __tipc_diag_gen_cookie(struct sock *sk)
> > +{
> > +   u32 res[2];
> > +
> > +   sock_diag_save_cookie(sk, res);
> > +   return *((u64 *)res);
> > +}
> 
> I am pretty sure some combination of compiler / arch could be not happy
> with this assumption that res[] is aligned to allow an u64 to be read like 
> that.
> 

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