[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] examples/l3fwd: fix unaligned memory access

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 05:43:54PM +0100, hgovindh wrote:
> Fix unaligned memory access when reading IPv6 header which
> leads to segmentation fault by changing aligned memory read
> to unaligned memory read.
> 
> Bugzilla ID: 279
> Fixes: 64d3955de1de ("examples/l3fwd: fix ARM build")
> Cc: maciej.czekaj at caviumnetworks.com
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> Signed-off-by: hgovindh <hariprasad.govindharajan at intel.com>
> ---
>  examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_em.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_em.c b/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_em.c
> index fa8f82be6..f0c443dae 100644
> --- a/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_em.c
> +++ b/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_em.c
> @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ em_get_ipv6_dst_port(void *ipv6_hdr, uint16_t portid, void *lookup_struct)
>  	 * Get part of 5 tuple: dst IP address lower 96 bits
>  	 * and src IP address higher 32 bits.
>  	 */
> -	key.xmm[1] = *(xmm_t *)data1;
> +	key.xmm[1] = _mm_loadu_si128((xmm_t *)data1);
>  

Minor nit, but since data1 is defined as "void *" the cast to xmm_t is
unnecessary.

Although we can't reproduce the bug, the fix looks correct for the bug as
described and harmless otherwise, so:

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>