Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 5 authors, 2015-10-21

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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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.
  :
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
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