netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 1/1] net_sched: Introduce skbmod action

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Date:   Tue, 30 Aug 2016 05:44:49 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, daniel@...earbox.net,
        xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 1/1] net_sched: Introduce skbmod action

On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 07:57 -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>         if (flags & SKBMOD_F_SWAPMAC) {
>                 u8 tmpaddr[ETH_ALEN];
>                 /*XXX: I am sure we can come up with something more efficient */
>                 ether_addr_copy(tmpaddr, eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest);
>                 ether_addr_copy(eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest, eth_hdr(skb)->h_source);
>                 ether_addr_copy(eth_hdr(skb)->h_source, tmpaddr);
>         }

While ether_addr_copy() is accepting u8 pointers, data must be aligned to u16 at least.

(See comments in include/linux/etherdevice.h)

Some arches/compilers might do things here that would generate a trap
if tmpaddr is not aligned.