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Re: zd1211rw (2.6.22 sparc64): unaligned access (do_rx)

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From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:43:30 -0800

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:42:01PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:35:54 -0800
> > 
> > > I don't have a 64 bit box.
> > 
> > Let me know when you have joined us in the 21st century.
> 
> 	Well, if you are so rich, please send me a new computer. I'm
> not paid to do any of this stuff.

The irony is that you don't even need a 64-bit system to work on this
kind of bug, consider qemu or similar.

But on my side I did all of my analysis with code inspection.

> 	As I was saying, we made a lot of progress in the last few
> months. And it works.

If you look at my bug fix, wext does anything but work, it writes over
random data in userspace on all 64-bit platforms.
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