linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB gadget rndis: fix bug skb_push function may return an unaligned pointer bug

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Date:	Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:29:03 -0700
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	bryan.wu@...log.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB gadget rndis: fix bug skb_push function may return an unaligned pointer bug

On Tuesday 03 April 2007 11:28 pm, Wu, Bryan wrote:
> USB gadget rndis: skb_push function may return a pointer which is not
> aligned as required by struct rndis_packet_msg_type.

Can you instead try to update the declaration of that struct
so that it's "__attribute__((packed))"?  That's less invasive,
and will address similar issues elsewhere ...

- Dave
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