The eth_addr member is passed to ether_addr functions that require
2-byte alignment, therefore the member must be properly aligned
to avoid unaligned accesses.
The problem is in place since the initial merge of multicast to unicast:
commit
02e9e8577adaa0a24af088e848d11482906a4e59 bridge: multicast to unicast
Fixes: 02e9e8577ada ("bridge: multicast to unicast")
Cc: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Martitz <t.martitz@avm.de>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
struct rcu_head rcu;
struct timer_list timer;
struct br_ip addr;
+ unsigned char eth_addr[ETH_ALEN] __aligned(2);
unsigned char flags;
- unsigned char eth_addr[ETH_ALEN];
};
struct net_bridge_mdb_entry {