Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] xfrm: Fix unaligned access in xfrm_notify_sa() for DELSA
From: Sowmini Varadhan <hidden>
Date: 2015-10-21 13:11:59
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From: Sowmini Varadhan <hidden>
Date: 2015-10-21 13:11:59
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On (10/21/15 06:22), David Miller wrote:
memcpy() _never_ works for avoiding unaligned accessed. I repeat, no matter what you do, no matter what kinds of casts or fancy typing you use, memcpy() _never_ works for this purpose.
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There is one and only one portable way to access unaligned data, and that is with the get_unaligned() and put_unaligned() helpers.
ok. I'll fix it up to use the *_unaligned functions and resend this out later today. --Sowmini