[email protected] schrieb: -----
>An: [email protected]
>Von: "David Miller"
>Gesendet von: [email protected]
>Datum: 25.06.2020 21:38
>Kopie: [email protected], [email protected],
>[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
>[email protected]
>Betreff: Re: [PATCH v2] net: bridge: enfore alignment for ethernet
>address
>
>From: Thomas Martitz <[email protected]>
>Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:26:03 +0200
>
>> 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]>
>
>Applied and queued up for -stable.
Awesome, thank you! I was about to resend the patch with the Nikolay's
Acked-By, but turns out that wasn't necessary.
>
>Please do not explicitly CC: stable for networking changes, I take
>care
>of those by hand.
>
Alright, I'll remeber that. This was my very first submission to the kernel,
everywhere it is suggested to Cc: stable.
Best regards.
