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From: Thomas Martitz <t.martitz@avm.de>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:26:03 +0200
Subject: net: bridge: enfore alignment for ethernet address
Git-commit: 206e732323c2a8e6d11f4125a62c27e60a50a850
Patch-mainline: 5.8-rc3
References: networking-stable-20_06_28

The eth_addr member is passed to ether_addr functions that require
2-byte alignment, therefore the member must be properly aligned
to avoid unaligned accesses.

The problem is in place since the initial merge of multicast to unicast:
commit 6db6f0eae6052b70885562e1733896647ec1d807 bridge: multicast to unicast

Fixes: 6db6f0eae605 ("bridge: multicast to unicast")
Cc: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Martitz <t.martitz@avm.de>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
 net/bridge/br_private.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/bridge/br_private.h
+++ b/net/bridge/br_private.h
@@ -189,8 +189,8 @@ struct net_bridge_port_group {
 	struct rcu_head			rcu;
 	struct timer_list		timer;
 	struct br_ip			addr;
+	unsigned char			eth_addr[ETH_ALEN] __aligned(2);
 	unsigned char			flags;
-	unsigned char			eth_addr[ETH_ALEN];
 };
 
 struct net_bridge_mdb_entry