On 25/06/2020 15:26, Thomas Martitz wrote:
> The eth_addr member is passed to ether_addr functions that require
> 2-byte alignment, therefore the member must be properly aligned
> to avoid unaligned accesses.
>
> The problem is in place since the initial merge of multicast to unicast:
> commit 6db6f0eae6052b70885562e1733896647ec1d807 bridge: multicast to unicast
>
> Fixes: 6db6f0eae605 ("bridge: multicast to unicast")
> Cc: Roopa Prabhu <[email protected]>
> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>
> Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
> Cc: Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Martitz <[email protected]>
> ---
> net/bridge/br_private.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_private.h b/net/bridge/br_private.h
> index 7501be4eeba0..2130fe0194e6 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_private.h
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_private.h
> @@ -217,8 +217,8 @@ struct net_bridge_port_group {
> struct rcu_head rcu;
> struct timer_list timer;
> struct br_ip addr;
> + unsigned char eth_addr[ETH_ALEN] __aligned(2);
> unsigned char flags;
> - unsigned char eth_addr[ETH_ALEN];
> };
>
> struct net_bridge_mdb_entry {
>
Thanks!
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>
