On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 22:27 +0100, Helge Deller wrote: > On a parisc64 kernel I notice sometimes this kernel warning: > Kernel unaligned access to 0x40ff8814 at ndisc_send_skb+0xc0/0x4d8 > > The address 0x40ff8814 points to the in6addr_linklocal_allrouters > variable and the warning simply means that some ipv6 function tries to > read a 64-bit word directly from the not-64-bit aligned > in6addr_linklocal_allrouters variable. > > The patch below ensures that those ipv6 loopback and router addresses > always will be naturally aligned and as such prevents unaligned accesses > for all architectures. > > Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> The patch LGTM, but the above looks like material for the 'net' tree, would you mind sending a v2 including a relevant fixes tag, the target tree in the subject prefix and possibly the stacktrace you observe? Feel free to include my acked-by tag in v2. Thanks, Paolo
