From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
To: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, hannes@stressinduktion.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2] net/vxlan: Avoid unaligned access in vxlan_build_skb()
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:43:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160921114313.07a43f14@griffin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160920185737.GU8920@oracle.com>
On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:57:37 -0400, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:
> The vxlan header may not be aligned to 4 bytes in
> vxlan_build_skb (e.g., for MLD packets). This patch
> avoids unaligned access traps from vxlan_build_skb
> (in platforms like sparc) by making struct vxlanhdr __packed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-21 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-20 18:57 [PATCH net-next V2] net/vxlan: Avoid unaligned access in vxlan_build_skb() Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-21 9:43 ` Jiri Benc [this message]
2016-09-21 10:10 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-09-21 16:14 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2016-09-21 16:49 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-09-21 16:53 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-09-21 17:12 ` Alexei Starovoitov
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