From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: xemul@parallels.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp repair: Fix unaligned access when repairing options (v2)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:23:36 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120426.052336.664675835426476301.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F990C71.3020500@parallels.com>
From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:50:57 +0400
> Don't pick __u8/__u16 values directly from raw pointers, but instead use
> an array of structures of code:value pairs. This is OK, since the buffer
> we take options from is not an skb memory, but a user-to-kernel one.
>
> For those options which don't require any value now, require this to be
> zero (for potential future extension of this API).
>
> v2: Changed tcp_repair_opt to use two __u32-s as spotted by David Laight.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Hmmm, this didn't show up on netdev, I wonder why?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-26 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-26 8:50 [PATCH] tcp repair: Fix unaligned access when repairing options (v2) Pavel Emelyanov
2012-04-26 9:23 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-04-26 9:41 ` Pavel Emelyanov
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2012-04-26 9:43 Pavel Emelyanov
2012-04-26 10:14 ` David Miller
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