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DateMon, 30 May 2005 09:16:10 +0200 (CEST)
FromGiuliano Pochini <>
SubjectRe: PATCH : ppp + big-endian = kernel crash
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.


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Giuliano.
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