[PATCH 5.4 007/178] net: bridge: enfore alignment for ethernet address

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Mon Jun 29 2020 - 15:55:14 EST


From: Thomas Martitz <t.martitz@xxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit db7202dec92e6caa2706c21d6fc359af318bde2e ]

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 6db6f0eae6052b70885562e1733896647ec1d807 bridge: multicast to unicast

Fixes: 6db6f0eae605 ("bridge: multicast to unicast")
Cc: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Martitz <t.martitz@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/bridge/br_private.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_private.h b/net/bridge/br_private.h
index ce2ab14ee6057..cecb4223440e7 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_private.h
+++ b/net/bridge/br_private.h
@@ -208,8 +208,8 @@ struct net_bridge_port_group {
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 {
--
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