mac80211: fix alignment issue with compare_ether_addr()

This addresses an alignment issue with compare_ether_addr().
The addresses passed to compare_ether_addr should be two bytes aligned.
It may function properly in x86 platform. However may not work properly
on IA-64 or ARM processor.

This also fixes a typo in mlme.c where the sk_buff struct name is incorect.
Though sizeof() works for any incorrect structure pointer name as its just
a pointer length that we want, lets just fix it.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/util.c b/net/mac80211/util.c
index 131e9e6c8a32..4e97b266f907 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/util.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/util.c
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ void *mac80211_wiphy_privid = &mac80211_wiphy_privid;
 
 /* See IEEE 802.1H for LLC/SNAP encapsulation/decapsulation */
 /* Ethernet-II snap header (RFC1042 for most EtherTypes) */
-const unsigned char rfc1042_header[] =
+const unsigned char rfc1042_header[] __aligned(2) =
         { 0xaa, 0xaa, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 };
 
 /* Bridge-Tunnel header (for EtherTypes ETH_P_AARP and ETH_P_IPX) */
-const unsigned char bridge_tunnel_header[] =
+const unsigned char bridge_tunnel_header[] __aligned(2) =
         { 0xaa, 0xaa, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0xf8 };