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authorShaddy Baddah <shaddy_baddah@hotmail.com>2008-11-28 17:10:45 +1100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2008-12-05 09:18:35 -0500
commitcde6901b7b69557a6f90f3183f76eda581af015e (patch)
tree7a0eeb25bedefb1713067e0539ce376d9d7308dd /drivers/net
parent5cf12e8dc641ef028f0cf9c317a9567e6b794de1 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c
index fe1867b25ff..cac732f4047 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c
@@ -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);