David Miller a écrit :
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:37:23 -0700

The previous patch relied on the bridge id being aligned by
the compiler (which happens as a side effect). So please use
this instead.

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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

bridge_id would be aligned by luck, because it is composed of char's
there is no explicit reason it should be aligned on at least an
unsigned short boundary.

I like the other patch much better, it provided explicit alignment and
is guarenteed to get rid of the problem.

Indeed, I wrote a test program on 32-bit Sparc to validate this:

struct bridge_id {
        unsigned char a[6];
        unsigned char b[6];
};

extern void bar(unsigned char *, unsigned char *);

void foo(void)
{
        unsigned char a;
        struct bridge_id b;

        bar(&b.a[0], &a);
}

foo() gets compiled like this:

foo:
        save    %sp, -120, %sp
        add     %fp, -21, %o0
        call    bar, 0
         add    %fp, -9, %o1
        jmp     %i7+8
         restore

See?  The bridge_id (passed in via %o0) is on an odd byte boundary
on the stack.

So your patch isn't fixing the bug at all.

I'm going to apply the original patch, because that one will
actually fix the problem and was actually tested on a system
that saw the problem.

I suspect you missed part of Stephen patch :

(maybe some mailer problem...)

--- linux-2.6.orig/net/bridge/br_private.h      2007-04-17
13:26:48.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6/net/bridge/br_private.h
2007-04-17 13:30:29.000000000 -0700 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 {
        unsigned char   prio[2];
        unsigned char   addr[6];
-};
+} __attribute__((aligned(8)));

 struct mac_addr
 {

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