From: "Mark H. Weaver" <mhw@netris.org>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: fix unaligned memory access in tcp_sack
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:09:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wmx3pfk.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
This patch fixes an unaligned memory access in tcp_sack while reading
sequence numbers from TCP selective acknowledgement options. Prior to
applying this patch, upstream linux-2.6.27.20 was occasionally
generating messages like this on my sparc64 system:
[54678.532071] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[6b17d4] tcp_packet+0xcd4/0xd00
More details provided upon request. Apologies in advance if I've sent
this to the wrong place or not followed proper procedures.
Best,
Mark
--- linux-2.6/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c.orig 2009-03-22 17:51:47.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c 2009-03-22 22:49:23.000000000 -0400
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include <linux/skbuff.h>
#include <linux/ipv6.h>
#include <net/ip6_checksum.h>
+#include <asm/unaligned.h>
#include <net/tcp.h>
@@ -466,7 +467,7 @@ static void tcp_sack(const struct sk_buf
for (i = 0;
i < (opsize - TCPOLEN_SACK_BASE);
i += TCPOLEN_SACK_PERBLOCK) {
- tmp = ntohl(*((__be32 *)(ptr+i)+1));
+ tmp = get_unaligned_be32((__be32 *)(ptr+i)+1);
if (after(tmp, *sack))
*sack = tmp;
next reply other threads:[~2009-03-23 3:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-23 3:09 Mark H. Weaver [this message]
2009-03-23 4:17 ` [PATCH] netfilter: fix unaligned memory access in tcp_sack David Miller
2009-03-23 12:48 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-24 23:39 ` David Miller
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