[PATCH] IB/addr: gid structure alignment fix

The device address contains unsigned character arrays, which contain raw GID
addresses.  The GIDs may not be naturally aligned, so do not cast them to
structures or unions.

Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/rdma/ib_addr.h b/include/rdma/ib_addr.h
index fcb5ba87dcc5..0ff67398928d 100644
--- a/include/rdma/ib_addr.h
+++ b/include/rdma/ib_addr.h
@@ -89,9 +89,10 @@ static inline void ib_addr_set_pkey(struct rdma_dev_addr *dev_addr, u16 pkey)
         dev_addr->broadcast[9] = (unsigned char) pkey;
 }
 
-static inline union ib_gid *ib_addr_get_sgid(struct rdma_dev_addr *dev_addr)
+static inline void ib_addr_get_sgid(struct rdma_dev_addr *dev_addr,
+                                    union ib_gid *gid)
 {
-        return  (union ib_gid *) (dev_addr->src_dev_addr + 4);
+        memcpy(gid, dev_addr->src_dev_addr + 4, sizeof *gid);
 }
 
 static inline void ib_addr_set_sgid(struct rdma_dev_addr *dev_addr,
@@ -100,9 +101,10 @@ static inline void ib_addr_set_sgid(struct rdma_dev_addr *dev_addr,
         memcpy(dev_addr->src_dev_addr + 4, gid, sizeof *gid);
 }
 
-static inline union ib_gid *ib_addr_get_dgid(struct rdma_dev_addr *dev_addr)
+static inline void ib_addr_get_dgid(struct rdma_dev_addr *dev_addr,
+                                    union ib_gid *gid)
 {
-        return  (union ib_gid *) (dev_addr->dst_dev_addr + 4);
+        memcpy(gid, dev_addr->dst_dev_addr + 4, sizeof *gid);
 }
 
 static inline void ib_addr_set_dgid(struct rdma_dev_addr *dev_addr,