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On 16-08-30 08:44 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 07:57 -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
if (flags & SKBMOD_F_SWAPMAC) {
u8 tmpaddr[ETH_ALEN];
/*XXX: I am sure we can come up with something more efficient */
ether_addr_copy(tmpaddr, eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest);
ether_addr_copy(eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest, eth_hdr(skb)->h_source);
ether_addr_copy(eth_hdr(skb)->h_source, tmpaddr);
}
While ether_addr_copy() is accepting u8 pointers, data must be aligned to u16
at least.
(See comments in include/linux/etherdevice.h)
Some arches/compilers might do things here that would generate a trap
if tmpaddr is not aligned.
Hrm. How do you suggest dealing with this?
cheers,
jamal