Re: ARM: Re: TCP LAST-ACK state broken in 2.4.17-pre2 [NEW DATA]

Mika Liljeberg
2001-12-18T20:53:13Z

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:

> > It's ARM in little endian mode.
>
> I think it is answer to the question.
>
> No doubts it still has broken misaligned access.

Oops, I think there was a misunderstanding. The linux machine is Intel.
The other one is a non-Linux ARM.

> > Now that you mention it, tcp_parse_options() in input.c seems to expect
> > that the timestamps are word aligned,
>
> Nope. It does not expect any alignment, but it is really supposed
> to penalise misbehaving cases.

Ahh, I see. There's a kernel exception handler that is supposed to fix
misaligned access? Hacky.

Cheers,

MikaL