From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262827AbVCPWML (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:12:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262830AbVCPWMK (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:12:10 -0500 Received: from dsl027-180-174.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.174]:39555 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262827AbVCPWJk (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:09:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:07:37 -0800 From: "David S. Miller" To: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix unaligned accesses in tcp_input_parse Message-Id: <20050316140737.7325f9fb.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <16952.4619.28663.456755@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <16952.4619.28663.456755@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:01:31 +0100 wrote: > TCP options are not guaranteed to be aligned at all, so we should use > get_unaligned when accessing u16- or u32-values in the TCP > options header to avoid alignment errors on some platforms. The patch > applies to vanilla 2.6.11. Applied, thanks.