netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix tcp_fastopen unaligned access complaints on sparc

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Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2017 12:25:33 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Rob Gardner <rob.gardner@...cle.com>
Cc:     Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...cle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        davem@...emloft.net, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix tcp_fastopen unaligned access complaints on
 sparc

On Thu, 2017-01-12 at 13:15 -0700, Rob Gardner wrote:

> 
> I suspect that someplace, somebody is casting val to an int * or 
> something like that.

Then that would be the bug. Can we root cause this please ?