Re: PATCH : ppp + big-endian = kernel crash

[David S. Miller]

From: "Philippe De Muyter" <phdm@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 21:48:42 +0200 (CEST)

> +		/* If the address of the packet is odd now, fix it. */
> +		if ((unsigned long)skb->data & 1) {
> +			unsigned char *p;

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.

Please make your m68k port handle unaligned memory accesses
in kernel mode properly instead.
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