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

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Date:	Sun, 19 Jul 2015 11:38:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com
Cc:	joe@...ches.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: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:01:34 +0200

> 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?)

We should fix the unaligned accesses, rather than quiet the
warning.
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