netdev - Re: [PROBLEM]: potential unaligned memory access in drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c

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Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:38:32 -0700
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	yann.poupet@...e.fr
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PROBLEM]: potential unaligned memory access in drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c

On Wednesday 11 March 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > It happened to me that skb_pull() returns a pointer to a
> > location not aligned on a 4 bytes boundary. 

Does this arch set NET_IP_ALIGN appropriately?

If worst comes to worst, use put_unaligned() instead of
a static (non-const) template for that header.


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