[PATCH] Fix unaligned accesses in tcp_input_parse

From: shenkel
Date: Wed Mar 16 2005 - 06:02:45 EST


Hi!

TCP options are not guaranteed to be aligned at all, so we should use
get_unaligned when accessing u16- or u32-values in the TCP
options header to avoid alignment errors on some platforms. The patch
applies to vanilla 2.6.11.

Ciao,
Sven

Signed-off-by: Sven Henkel <shenkel@xxxxxxxxx>

--- linux-2.6.11/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c.orig 2005-03-02 14:43:31.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.11/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c 2005-03-02 14:43:33.000000000 +0100
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
#include <net/tcp.h>
#include <net/inet_common.h>
#include <linux/ipsec.h>
+#include <asm/unaligned.h>

int sysctl_tcp_timestamps = 1;
int sysctl_tcp_window_scaling = 1;
@@ -3007,7 +3008,7 @@ void tcp_parse_options(struct sk_buff *s
switch(opcode) {
case TCPOPT_MSS:
if(opsize==TCPOLEN_MSS && th->syn && !estab) {
- u16 in_mss = ntohs(*(__u16 *)ptr);
+ u16 in_mss = ntohs(get_unaligned((__u16 *)ptr));
if (in_mss) {
if (opt_rx->user_mss && opt_rx->user_mss < in_mss)
in_mss = opt_rx->user_mss;
@@ -3034,8 +3035,8 @@ void tcp_parse_options(struct sk_buff *s
if ((estab && opt_rx->tstamp_ok) ||
(!estab && sysctl_tcp_timestamps)) {
opt_rx->saw_tstamp = 1;
- opt_rx->rcv_tsval = ntohl(*(__u32 *)ptr);
- opt_rx->rcv_tsecr = ntohl(*(__u32 *)(ptr+4));
+ opt_rx->rcv_tsval = ntohl(get_unaligned((__u32 *)ptr));
+ opt_rx->rcv_tsecr = ntohl(get_unaligned((__u32 *)(ptr+4)));
}
}
break;

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