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| author |   Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> | 2006-01-17 11:52:12 -0800 |
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| committer |   Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> | 2006-01-17 11:52:12 -0800 |
| commit | 9834a2bb4970547540222fcba04e0a37d04cb0a0 (patch) | |
| tree | d86a2a4de740c815cead2748952035b1216269ef /include/net | |
| parent | [SCTP]: Fix potential race condition between sctp_close() and sctp_rcv(). (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-9834a2bb4970547540222fcba04e0a37d04cb0a0.tar.xz linux-dev-9834a2bb4970547540222fcba04e0a37d04cb0a0.zip | |
[SCTP]: Fix sctp_cookie alignment in the packet.
On 64 bit architectures, sctp_cookie sent as part of INIT-ACK is not
aligned on a 64 bit boundry and thus causes unaligned access exceptions.
The layout of the cookie prameter is this:
|<----- Parameter Header --------------------|<--- Cookie DATA --------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| param type (16 bits) | param len (16 bits) | sig [32 bytes] | cookie..
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
The cookie data portion contains 64 bit values on 64 bit architechtures
(timeval) that fall on a 32 bit alignment boundry when used as part of
the on-wire format, but align correctly when used in internal
structures. This patch explicitely pads the on-wire format so that
it is properly aligned.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/sctp/structs.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/include/net/sctp/structs.h index f5c22d77feab..72aeae4a0067 100644 --- a/include/net/sctp/structs.h +++ b/include/net/sctp/structs.h @@ -405,8 +405,9 @@ struct sctp_cookie { /* The format of our cookie that we send to our peer. */ struct sctp_signed_cookie { __u8 signature[SCTP_SECRET_SIZE]; + __u32 __pad; /* force sctp_cookie alignment to 64 bits */ struct sctp_cookie c; -}; +} __attribute__((packed)); /* This is another convenience type to allocate memory for address * params for the maximum size and pass such structures around |