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-rw-r--r--fs/dlm/midcomms.c26
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dlm/midcomms.c b/fs/dlm/midcomms.c
index 0bedfa8606a2..1c6654a21ec4 100644
--- a/fs/dlm/midcomms.c
+++ b/fs/dlm/midcomms.c
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@
* into packets and sends them to the comms layer.
*/
-#include <asm/unaligned.h>
-
#include "dlm_internal.h"
#include "lowcomms.h"
#include "config.h"
@@ -45,10 +43,18 @@ int dlm_process_incoming_buffer(int nodeid, unsigned char *buf, int len)
while (len >= sizeof(struct dlm_header)) {
hd = (struct dlm_header *)ptr;
- /* no message should be more than this otherwise we
- * cannot deliver this message to upper layers
+ /* no message should be more than DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE or
+ * less than dlm_header size.
+ *
+ * Some messages does not have a 8 byte length boundary yet
+ * which can occur in a unaligned memory access of some dlm
+ * messages. However this problem need to be fixed at the
+ * sending side, for now it seems nobody run into architecture
+ * related issues yet but it slows down some processing.
+ * Fixing this issue should be scheduled in future by doing
+ * the next major version bump.
*/
- msglen = get_unaligned_le16(&hd->h_length);
+ msglen = le16_to_cpu(hd->h_length);
if (msglen > DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE ||
msglen < sizeof(struct dlm_header)) {
log_print("received invalid length header: %u from node %d, will abort message parsing",
@@ -85,15 +91,7 @@ int dlm_process_incoming_buffer(int nodeid, unsigned char *buf, int len)
goto skip;
}
- /* for aligned memory access, we just copy current message
- * to begin of the buffer which contains already parsed buffer
- * data and should provide align access for upper layers
- * because the start address of the buffer has a aligned
- * address. This memmove can be removed when the upperlayer
- * is capable of unaligned memory access.
- */
- memmove(buf, ptr, msglen);
- dlm_receive_buffer((union dlm_packet *)buf, nodeid);
+ dlm_receive_buffer((union dlm_packet *)ptr, nodeid);
skip:
ret += msglen;