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From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2] net/vxlan: Avoid unaligned access in
 vxlan_build_skb()
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:43:13 +0200
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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>