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[BRIDGE]: Unaligned access when comparing ethernet addresses
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compare_ether_addr() implicitly requires that the addresses
passed are 2-bytes aligned in memory.

This is not true for br_stp_change_bridge_id() and
br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id() in which one of the addresses
is unsigned char *, and thus may not be 2-bytes aligned.

Signed-off-by: Evgeny Kravtsunov <emkravts@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
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Evgeny Kravtsunov authored and David S. Miller committed Apr 17, 2007
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9 changes: 7 additions & 2 deletions net/bridge/br_stp_if.c
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Expand Up @@ -126,7 +126,9 @@ void br_stp_disable_port(struct net_bridge_port *p)
/* called under bridge lock */
void br_stp_change_bridge_id(struct net_bridge *br, const unsigned char *addr)
{
unsigned char oldaddr[6];
/* should be aligned on 2 bytes for compare_ether_addr() */
unsigned short oldaddr_aligned[ETH_ALEN >> 1];
unsigned char *oldaddr = (unsigned char *)oldaddr_aligned;
struct net_bridge_port *p;
int wasroot;

Expand All @@ -151,11 +153,14 @@ void br_stp_change_bridge_id(struct net_bridge *br, const unsigned char *addr)
br_become_root_bridge(br);
}

static const unsigned char br_mac_zero[6];
/* should be aligned on 2 bytes for compare_ether_addr() */
static const unsigned short br_mac_zero_aligned[ETH_ALEN >> 1];

/* called under bridge lock */
void br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id(struct net_bridge *br)
{
const unsigned char *br_mac_zero =
(const unsigned char *)br_mac_zero_aligned;
const unsigned char *addr = br_mac_zero;
struct net_bridge_port *p;

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