From: Hennerich, Michael <Michael.Hennerich@analog.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:41:35 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: fix unaligned exception in /drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
X-Git-Tag: v3.12-rc1~31390^2~11^2~9
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dde6d43d060bf0e0f38c66f76908e460db3bf0d8;p=kernel%2Fkernel-generic.git

fix unaligned exception in /drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c

Prevent an unaligned exception to occur.  (GCC 4.1) tmp is defined as char
pointer while it is later accessed as short.

Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
index 936c888..2a65bb9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
@@ -2059,7 +2059,7 @@ static int determine_firmware(struct net_device *dev)
 	int err;
 	struct comp_id nic_id, sta_id;
 	unsigned int firmver;
-	char tmp[SYMBOL_MAX_VER_LEN+1];
+	char tmp[SYMBOL_MAX_VER_LEN+1] __attribute__((aligned(2)));
 
 	/* Get the hardware version */
 	err = HERMES_READ_RECORD(hw, USER_BAP, HERMES_RID_NICID, &nic_id);