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

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Message-ID: <55AB919E.8030505@oracle.com>
Date:	Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:01:34 +0200
From:	Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, alexander.duyck@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 RFC net-next] net/vxlan: Fix kernel unaligned access
 in __vxlan_find_mac

On 07/18/2015 08:06 PM, Joe Perches wrote:

> It seems that this code has had unaligned accesses
> on this field even before compare_ether_addr was
> converted to ether_addr_equal.
>
> Is sparc64 the only one that emits / ratelimits that
> unaligned access message?  I looked a little, but I
> didn't find a fixup message when MIPS does unaligned
> accesses.  Are all the other arches silent when
> fixing up unaligned accesses?  Maye adding a generic
> debug only ratelimited message might help remove
> more of these.  As it's not fatal, naybe the sparc64
> message should be KERN_DEBUG/pr_debug.

I'm confused, are we suggesting that we "fix" the unaligned
access by snuffing out the message that complains loudly and correctly
about it?

See also: large block comment above __pksb_trim
about correctly using skb_reserve(). Evidently not being
correctly done for the IPv6-vxlan code path (and possibly
for other encaps too?)

--Sowmini



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