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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: fix unaligned memory access in tcp_sack
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:17:30 -0700 (PDT)
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From: "Mark H. Weaver" <mhw@netris.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:09:51 -0400

> 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.

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>