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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: linville@tuxdriver.com
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de,
	Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] b43: Fix possible unaligned u32 access
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:18:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906042318.33895.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)

From: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>

Fix possible unaligned u32 access in b43_generate_plcp_hdr().
Unaligned data is read/write with a u32 pointer instead of using the
packed structure. Some versions of gcc ignore the "packed" attribute, if the
structure element is accessed through a local pointer.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>

---

Please queue this bugfix.


diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c
index a63d888..55f36a7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c
@@ -118,7 +118,6 @@ u8 b43_plcp_get_ratecode_ofdm(const u8 bitrate)
 void b43_generate_plcp_hdr(struct b43_plcp_hdr4 *plcp,
 			   const u16 octets, const u8 bitrate)
 {
-	__le32 *data = &(plcp->data);
 	__u8 *raw = plcp->raw;
 
 	if (b43_is_ofdm_rate(bitrate)) {
@@ -127,7 +126,7 @@ void b43_generate_plcp_hdr(struct b43_plcp_hdr4 *plcp,
 		d = b43_plcp_get_ratecode_ofdm(bitrate);
 		B43_WARN_ON(octets & 0xF000);
 		d |= (octets << 5);
-		*data = cpu_to_le32(d);
+		plcp->data = cpu_to_le32(d);
 	} else {
 		u32 plen;
 
@@ -141,7 +140,7 @@ void b43_generate_plcp_hdr(struct b43_plcp_hdr4 *plcp,
 				raw[1] = 0x04;
 		} else
 			raw[1] = 0x04;
-		*data |= cpu_to_le32(plen << 16);
+		plcp->data |= cpu_to_le32(plen << 16);
 		raw[0] = b43_plcp_get_ratecode_cck(bitrate);
 	}
 }

-- 
Greetings, Michael.

             reply	other threads:[~2009-06-04 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-04 21:18 Michael Buesch [this message]
2009-06-05 12:25 ` [PATCH] b43: Fix possible unaligned u32 access John W. Linville
2009-06-05 15:03   ` castet.matthieu
2009-06-05 18:53     ` John W. Linville
2009-06-05 19:08       ` John W. Linville
2009-06-05 17:29   ` Michael Buesch
2009-06-05 18:50     ` John W. Linville
2009-06-05 19:03       ` Michael Buesch
2009-06-06  1:03       ` David Miller
2009-06-06  1:00   ` David Miller

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