From: Shaddy Baddah Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:10:45 +0000 (+1100) Subject: zd1211rw: use unaligned safe memcmp() in-place of compare_ether_addr() X-Git-Tag: v2.6.28-rc8~41^2~1^2 X-Git-Url: http://www.pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=cde6901b7b69557a6f90f3183f76eda581af015e zd1211rw: use unaligned safe memcmp() in-place of compare_ether_addr() Under my 2.6.28-rc6 sparc64, when associating to an AP through my zd1211rw device, I was seeing kernel log messages like (not exact output): Kernel unaligned access at TPC[10129b68] zd_mac_rx+0x144/0x32c [zd1211rw] For the zd1211rw module, on RX, the 80211 packet will be located after the PLCP header in the skb data buffer. The PLCP header being 5 bytes long, the 80211 header will start unaligned from an aligned skb buffer. As per Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt, we must replace the not unaligned() safe compare_ether_addr() with memcmp() to protect architectures that require alignment. Signed-off-by: Shaddy Baddah Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c index fe1867b25ff..cac732f4047 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ static int filter_ack(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_hdr *rx_hdr, struct ieee80211_hdr *tx_hdr; tx_hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)skb->data; - if (likely(!compare_ether_addr(tx_hdr->addr2, rx_hdr->addr1))) + if (likely(!memcmp(tx_hdr->addr2, rx_hdr->addr1, ETH_ALEN))) { __skb_unlink(skb, q); tx_status(hw, skb, IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK, stats->signal, 1);