netdev - Re: [BRIDGE] Unaligned access on IA64 when comparing ethernet addresses

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Message-Id: <20070417.123135.56861973.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:31:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xemul@...ru
Cc:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bridge@...ts.osdl.org, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [BRIDGE] Unaligned access on IA64 when comparing ethernet
 addresses

From: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...ru>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:49:30 +0400

> From: Evgeny Kravtsunov <emkravts@...nvz.org>
> 
> 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 <emkravts@...nvz.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>

Patch applied, thank you.
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