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

hgovindh hariprasad.govindharajan at intel.com
Wed Jul 24 18:43:54 CEST 2019


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);
 
 	/*
 	 * Get part of 5 tuple: dst port and src port
-- 
2.22.0



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