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zd1211rw: use unaligned safe memcmp() in-place of compare_ether_addr() 

Under my 2.6.28-rc6 sparc64, when associating to an AP through my
zd1211rw device, I was seeing kernel log messages like (not exact output):

  Kernel unaligned access at TPC[10129b68] zd_mac_rx+0x144/0x32c [zd1211rw]

For the zd1211rw module, on RX, the 80211 packet will be located after
the PLCP header in the skb data buffer. The PLCP header being 5 bytes
long, the 80211 header will start unaligned from an aligned skb
buffer.

As per Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt, we must replace the
not unaligned() safe compare_ether_addr() with memcmp() to protect
architectures that require alignment.

Signed-off-by: Shaddy Baddah <shaddy_baddah@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
wifi-calibration
Shaddy Baddah 2008-11-28 17:10:45 +11:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 5cf12e8dc6
commit cde6901b7b
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
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drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c
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@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ static int filter_ack(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_hdr *rx_hdr,
struct ieee80211_hdr *tx_hdr;
tx_hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)skb->data;
if (likely(!compare_ether_addr(tx_hdr->addr2, rx_hdr->addr1)))
if (likely(!memcmp(tx_hdr->addr2, rx_hdr->addr1, ETH_ALEN)))
{
__skb_unlink(skb, q);
tx_status(hw, skb, IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK, stats->signal, 1);