[PATCH] sys_sendmsg() alignment bug fix

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>]

   The patch below adds an alignment attribute to the buffer used in
sys_sendmsg().  This eliminates an unaligned access warning on ia64.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>

diff -r db9b9552a2b4 net/socket.c
--- a/net/socket.c	Sat Sep 24 23:56:08 2005
+++ b/net/socket.c	Mon Sep 26 13:44:09 2005
@@ -1700,7 +1700,9 @@
 	struct socket *sock;
 	char address[MAX_SOCK_ADDR];
 	struct iovec iovstack[UIO_FASTIOV], *iov = iovstack;
-	unsigned char ctl[sizeof(struct cmsghdr) + 20];	/* 20 is size of ipv6_pktinfo */
+	unsigned char ctl[sizeof(struct cmsghdr) + 20]
+	                  __attribute__ ((aligned (sizeof(__kernel_size_t))));
+	                  /* 20 is size of ipv6_pktinfo */
 	unsigned char *ctl_buf = ctl;
 	struct msghdr msg_sys;
 	int err, ctl_len, iov_size, total_len;


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