From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, phdm@macqel.be
Subject: Re: PATCH : ppp + big-endian = kernel crash
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 09:16:10 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20050530091610.pochini@shiny.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050529.135257.98862077.davem@davemloft.net>
On 29-May-2005 David S. Miller wrote:
>
> 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.
Accessing 4-byte integers in 2-byte aligned addresses is fine
on all "desktop" CISC m68k IIRC (the first m68k was a 16-bit
processor so it didn't require 32-bit alignment). I don't
know about embedded chips, coldfire and others.
--
Giuliano.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-30 7:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-29 19:48 Philippe De Muyter
2005-05-29 20:52 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-29 21:38 ` Philippe De Muyter
2005-05-29 21:55 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-30 2:52 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-30 3:11 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-01 15:26 ` Philippe De Muyter
2005-05-30 10:22 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-30 13:01 ` cutaway
2005-05-30 7:16 ` Giuliano Pochini [this message]
2005-05-30 14:05 Greg Ungerer
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