On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 08:48 -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: > For our case it is _very sad_ that someone actually explicitly defined > pads - in my opinion for no other purpose other than reuse and then > we say we cant use them after.
Again, there is nothing you can do to avoid some pads _once_ they are there. Even if you leave the pad here, the 'wire protocol' will add padding anyway ( NLMSG_ALIGN() and friends)