From: Evgeny Kravtsunov Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:31:24 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [BRIDGE]: Unaligned access when comparing ethernet addresses X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21~62^2 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=19bb3506e27096eea5f7b71b89621ad1203ed318;p=linux-2.6 [BRIDGE]: Unaligned access when comparing ethernet addresses compare_ether_addr() implicitly requires that the addresses passed are 2-bytes aligned in memory. This is not true for br_stp_change_bridge_id() and br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id() in which one of the addresses is unsigned char *, and thus may not be 2-bytes aligned. Signed-off-by: Evgeny Kravtsunov Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov --- diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c index 58d13f2bd1..a285897a2f 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c @@ -126,7 +126,9 @@ void br_stp_disable_port(struct net_bridge_port *p) /* called under bridge lock */ void br_stp_change_bridge_id(struct net_bridge *br, const unsigned char *addr) { - unsigned char oldaddr[6]; + /* should be aligned on 2 bytes for compare_ether_addr() */ + unsigned short oldaddr_aligned[ETH_ALEN >> 1]; + unsigned char *oldaddr = (unsigned char *)oldaddr_aligned; struct net_bridge_port *p; int wasroot; @@ -151,11 +153,14 @@ void br_stp_change_bridge_id(struct net_bridge *br, const unsigned char *addr) br_become_root_bridge(br); } -static const unsigned char br_mac_zero[6]; +/* should be aligned on 2 bytes for compare_ether_addr() */ +static const unsigned short br_mac_zero_aligned[ETH_ALEN >> 1]; /* called under bridge lock */ void br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id(struct net_bridge *br) { + const unsigned char *br_mac_zero = + (const unsigned char *)br_mac_zero_aligned; const unsigned char *addr = br_mac_zero; struct net_bridge_port *p;