Commit 206e7323 authored by Thomas Martitz's avatar Thomas Martitz Committed by David S. Miller
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net: bridge: enfore alignment for ethernet address



The eth_addr member is passed to ether_addr functions that require
2-byte alignment, therefore the member must be properly aligned
to avoid unaligned accesses.

The problem is in place since the initial merge of multicast to unicast:
commit 6db6f0ea bridge: multicast to unicast

Fixes: 6db6f0ea ("bridge: multicast to unicast")
Cc: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Martitz <t.martitz@avm.de>
Acked-by: default avatarNikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 25702840
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@@ -217,8 +217,8 @@ struct net_bridge_port_group {
	struct rcu_head			rcu;
	struct timer_list		timer;
	struct br_ip			addr;
	unsigned char			eth_addr[ETH_ALEN] __aligned(2);
	unsigned char			flags;
	unsigned char			eth_addr[ETH_ALEN];
};

struct net_bridge_mdb_entry {