Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] xfrm: Fix unaligned access in xfrm_notify_sa() for DELSA

From: Sowmini Varadhan
Date: Wed Oct 21 2015 - 09:12:03 EST


On (10/21/15 06:22), David Miller wrote:
> memcpy() _never_ works for avoiding unaligned accessed.
>
> I repeat, no matter what you do, no matter what kinds of casts or
> fancy typing you use, memcpy() _never_ works for this purpose.
:
> There is one and only one portable way to access unaligned data,
> and that is with the get_unaligned() and put_unaligned() helpers.

ok. I'll fix it up to use the *_unaligned functions and resend this
out later today.

--Sowmini

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