alignment faults in 3.6

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Fri Oct 5 21:41:17 EDT 2012


On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 11:37:40PM +0100, Mans Rullgard wrote:
> > The problem is the (__be32 *) casts.  This is a normal pointer to a 32-bit,
> > which is assumed to be aligned, and the cast overrides the packed attribute
> > from the struct.  Dereferencing these cast expressions must be done with the
> > macros from asm/unaligned.h
> 
> Again, not going to happen.  DaveM is on record for saying as much, but
> I guess you're going to reject that as well, so I'm not sure why I'm
> even bothering to reply.

May I suggest to send a recap of this thread to netdev at vger.kernel.org 
and see what davem has to say this time?  Otherwise we are just going in 
circle.


Nicolas



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