Re: [PATCH] b43: Fix possible unaligned u32 access

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Friday 05 June 2009 14:25:03 John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:18:33PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > 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>
> 
> That seems pretty brain-dead...can you cite a source for this
> information?  The patch seems like a no-op...
> 
> John

struct foo {
	int data;
} __attribute__((packed));

struct foo foo;
int *d = &foo->data;
foo->data = x;	/* Works for unaligned */
*d = y;		/* Does not work for unaligned */

-- 
Greetings, Michael.