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[BRIDGE]: Unaligned accesses in the ethernet bridge
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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.

Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Peter Chubb authored and David S. Miller committed Mar 24, 2006
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c
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#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"
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{
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;
}
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