Re: PATCH : ppp + big-endian = kernel crash

["Philippe De Muyter" <phdm@macqel.be>]

I have also sent this message to uclinux-dev, where it can be of interest.

David S. Miller wrote :
> From: "Philippe De Muyter" <phdm@macqel.be>
> Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 21:48:42 +0200 (CEST)
> 
> > +		/* If the address of the packet is odd now, fix it. */
> > +		if ((unsigned long)skb->data & 1) {
> > +			unsigned char *p;
> 
> And now it will crash when a packet is only 2-byte aligned
> when the input packet processing does the first access
> to the IP address in the packet header.

Actually, my fix has been tested extensively, and m68k's won't crash when
accessing 4-bytes words on only 2-byte aligned addresses.  If you mean
that I moved the packet in the wrong direction to get the best alignment,
this can easily be fixed.

> 
> Please make your m68k port handle unaligned memory accesses
> in kernel mode properly instead.
> 

Do you mean that ip_rcv may not assume that packets are properly aligned ?

And some non-mmu m68k (Coldfires) do not provide enough information in
exception frames to restart instructions on an address error in the general
case.

Best regards

Philippe