/* If the peer gave us the last packet it saw, process this as if
* we had received a regular ACK. */
- if (dp && dp->dp_ack_seq)
- rds_send_drop_acked(conn, be64_to_cpu(dp->dp_ack_seq), NULL);
+ if (dp) {
+ /* dp structure start is not guaranteed to be 8 bytes aligned.
+ * Since dp_ack_seq is 64-bit extended load operations can be
+ * used so go through get_unaligned to avoid unaligned errors.
+ */
+ __be64 dp_ack_seq = get_unaligned(&dp->dp_ack_seq);
+
+ if (dp_ack_seq)
+ rds_send_drop_acked(conn, be64_to_cpu(dp_ack_seq),
+ NULL);
+ }
rds_connect_complete(conn);
}