Fw: [BUG] alignment problem in net/core/flow.c:flow_key_compare

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

This is in 2.6.4:

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:53:02 +0100
From: mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [BUG] alignment problem in net/core/flow.c:flow_key_compare


There is a problem with alignment in the flow_key_compare function in
net/core/flow.c.  It takes arguments of type struct flowi * and casts
them to flow_compare_t *, which is 64 bits on 64-bit machines.  It
then proceeds to read and compare 64-bit values from these pointers.
The problem is that struct flowi only requires 32-bit alignment, so
these reads cause numerous unaligned exceptions.  On average, I get
nearly 1000 unaligned exceptions per second.

The solutions I see are either to force the alignment of struct flowi
to 64 bits, or to use 32-bit access in flow_key_compare.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se
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