[patch 44/60] TCP: Fix TCP header misalignment

Greg KH
2007-12-13T07:14:22Z

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2.6.23-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.

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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

[TCP]: Fix TCP header misalignment

[ Upstream commit: 21df56c6e2372e09c916111efb6c14c372a5ab2e ]

Indeed my previous change to alloc_pskb has made it possible
for the TCP header to be misaligned iff the MTU is not a multiple
of 4 (and less than a page). So I suspect the optimised IPsec
MTU calculation is giving you just such an MTU :)

This patch fixes it by changing alloc_pskb to make sure that
the size is at least 32-bit aligned. This does not cause the
problem fixed by the previous patch because max_header is always
32-bit aligned which means that in the SG/NOTSO case this will
be a no-op.

I thought about putting this in the callers but all the current
callers are from TCP. If and when we get a non-TCP caller we
can always create a TCP wrapper for this function and move the
alignment over there.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
include/net/sock.h | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h
@@ -1200,6 +1200,9 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *sk_stream_
{
struct sk_buff *skb;

+ /* The TCP header must be at least 32-bit aligned. */
+ size = ALIGN(size, 4);
+
skb = alloc_skb_fclone(size + sk->sk_prot->max_header, gfp);
if (skb) {
skb->truesize += mem;

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