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MacOS misaligned pointer dereference in DataLinkReceiver with invalid interface #641

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@tgross35

I am attempting to run the example at https://github.com/libpnet/libpnet/blob/main/examples/arp_packet.rs on MacOS but am getting a misaligned pointer error:

thread 'main' panicked at /Users/tmgross/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/pnet_datalink-0.34.0/src/bpf.rs:416:44:
misaligned pointer dereference: address must be a multiple of 0x4 but is 0x7fd3e400ca0e
stack backtrace:
   0: rust_begin_unwind
             at /rustc/58eefc33adf769a1abe12ad94b3e6811185b4ce5/library/std/src/panicking.rs:617:5
   1: core::panicking::panic_nounwind_fmt
             at /rustc/58eefc33adf769a1abe12ad94b3e6811185b4ce5/library/core/src/panicking.rs:96:14
   2: core::panicking::panic_misaligned_pointer_dereference
             at /rustc/58eefc33adf769a1abe12ad94b3e6811185b4ce5/library/core/src/panicking.rs:175:5
   3: <pnet_datalink::backend::DataLinkReceiverImpl as pnet_datalink::DataLinkReceiver>::next
             at /Users/tmgross/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/pnet_datalink-0.34.0/src/bpf.rs:416:44
   4: wakeupcall::arp::get_mac_through_arp
             at ./src/arp.rs:79:19
   5: wakeupcall::arp::scan
             at ./src/arp.rs:26:10

I was testing with interface name lo0 so this is probably not an interface that has any useful data anyway, but I would expect this to fail with an error rather than catching a misaligned read.

Compiling in release mode actually seems to make this do the right thing, I get an Err("failure") instead.

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