[PATCH] ctdb-common: Fix aliasing issue in IPv6 checksum (bug 13588)

[Martin Schwenke]

Since commit 9c51b278b1700cd5f3e2addc19b7c711cc2ea10b the compiler has
been able to inline the affected call to uint16_checksum().  Given
that the data (phdr) is being accessed by an incompatible
pointer (data) there is an aliasing problem when the call is inlined.
This results in incorrect behaviour with -O2/-O3 when compiling with
at least GCC 6, 7, and 8.

Fix this by making the types compatible.

Also fixes CID 1437604 (Reliance on integer endianness).  This is a
false positive because the uint16_checksum doesn't depend on the order
of the input uint16_t items.

Please review and maybe push...

peace & happiness,
martin
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