Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=01e1f045e65b683fe7203b1e16a915bbb94c15fe Commit: 01e1f045e65b683fe7203b1e16a915bbb94c15fe Parent: a10605e599a7873417043fe2bb559abe719f8a1a Author: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AuthorDate: Thu Nov 22 22:03:42 2007 +0000 Committer: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CommitDate: Thu Nov 29 18:08:47 2007 -0500
ieee80211: fix unaligned access in ieee80211_copy_snap There is no guarantee that data+SNAP_SIZE will reside on an even numbered address, so doing a 16 bit read will cause an unaligned access in some situations. Based on a patch from Jun Sun. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c b/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c index a4c3c51..6d06f13 100644 --- a/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c +++ b/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c @@ -144,7 +144,8 @@ static int ieee80211_copy_snap(u8 * data, u16 h_proto) snap->oui[1] = oui[1]; snap->oui[2] = oui[2]; - *(u16 *) (data + SNAP_SIZE) = htons(h_proto); + h_proto = htons(h_proto); + memcpy(data + SNAP_SIZE, &h_proto, sizeof(u16)); return SNAP_SIZE + sizeof(u16); } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git-commits-head" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html