Under my 2.6.28-rc6 sparc64, when associating to an AP through my
zd1211rw device, I was seeing kernel log messages like (not exact output):
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[10129b68] zd_mac_rx+0x144/0x32c [zd1211rw]
For the zd1211rw module, on RX, the 80211 packet will be located after
the PLCP header in the skb data buffer. The PLCP header being 5 bytes
long, the 80211 header will start unaligned from an aligned skb
buffer.
As per Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt, we must replace the
not unaligned() safe compare_ether_addr() with memcmp() to protect
architectures that require alignment.
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c
index e48d605..dd93f23 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ static int filter_ack(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct ieee80211_hdr *rx_hdr,
struct ieee80211_hdr *tx_hdr;
tx_hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)skb->data;
- if (likely(!compare_ether_addr(tx_hdr->addr2, rx_hdr->addr1)))
+ if (likely(!memcmp(tx_hdr->addr2, rx_hdr->addr1, ETH_ALEN)))
{
__skb_unlink(skb, q);
tx_status(hw, skb, IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK, stats->signal, 1);
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