On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 01:06:02PM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote:
> 
> I see lots of
>       kernel unaligned access to 0xa0000001009dbb6f, ip=0xa000000100811591
>       kernel unaligned access to 0xa0000001009dbb6b, ip=0xa0000001008115c1
>       kernel unaligned access to 0xa0000001009dbb6d, ip=0xa0000001008115f1
> messages in my logs on IA64 when using the ethernet bridge with 2.6.16.
> 
> 
> Appended is a patch to fix them.


I see this patch already made it into 2.6.17-rc1.

It seems to be a candidate for 2.6.16.3, too?
If yes, please submit it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]


> Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> 
>  net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c |    5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6-import/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-import.orig/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c    2006-03-22 
> 09:11:01.349886375 +1100
> +++ linux-2.6-import/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c 2006-03-23 12:52:13.719239205 
> +1100
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
>  #include <linux/llc.h>
>  #include <net/llc.h>
>  #include <net/llc_pdu.h>
> +#include <asm/unaligned.h>
>  
>  #include "br_private.h"
>  #include "br_private_stp.h"
> @@ -59,12 +60,12 @@ static inline void br_set_ticks(unsigned
>  {
>       unsigned long ticks = (STP_HZ * j)/ HZ;
>  
> -     *((__be16 *) dest) = htons(ticks);
> +     put_unaligned(htons(ticks), (__be16 *)dest);
>  }
>  
>  static inline int br_get_ticks(const unsigned char *src)
>  {
> -     unsigned long ticks = ntohs(*(__be16 *)src);
> +     unsigned long ticks = ntohs(get_unaligned((__be16 *)src));
>  
>       return (ticks * HZ + STP_HZ - 1) / STP_HZ;
>  }

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Reply via email to