netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 RFC net-next] net/vxlan: Fix kernel unaligned access in __vxlan_find

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Message-Id: <20150717.181825.641987192390100037.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jul 2015 18:18:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	joe@...ches.com
Cc:	sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	alexander.duyck@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 RFC net-next] net/vxlan: Fix kernel unaligned access
 in __vxlan_find_mac

From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:07:02 -0700

> On Fri, 2015-07-17 at 22:00 +0200, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:
>> __vxlan_find_mac invokes ether_addr_equal on the eth_addr field,
>> which triggers unaligned access messages, so rearrange vxlan_fdb
>> to avoid this in the most non-intrusive way.
> 
> What arch does this?

Sparc, MIPS, etc.
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