[Devel] Re: [BRIDGE] Unaligned access on IA64 when comparing ethernet addresses

[David Miller]

From: Pavel Emelianov <xemul at sw.ru>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:49:30 +0400

> From: Evgeny Kravtsunov <emkravts at openvz.org>
> 
> 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 at openvz.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev at openvz.org>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul at openvz.org>

Patch applied, thank you.