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ieee80211: fix unaligned access in ieee80211_copy_snap

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There is no guarantee that data+SNAP_SIZE will reside on an even numbered
address, so doing a 16 bit read will cause an unaligned access in some
situations. Based on a patch from Jun Sun.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Daniel Drake 2007-11-22 22:03:42 +00:00 committed by John W. Linville
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commit 01e1f045e6
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net/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c
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@ -144,7 +144,8 @@ static int ieee80211_copy_snap(u8 * data, u16 h_proto)
snap->oui[1] = oui[1];
snap->oui[2] = oui[2];
*(u16 *) (data + SNAP_SIZE) = htons(h_proto);
h_proto = htons(h_proto);
memcpy(data + SNAP_SIZE, &h_proto, sizeof(u16));
return SNAP_SIZE + sizeof(u16);
}