netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp repair: Fix unaligned access when repairing options (v2)

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:41:14 +0400
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David.Laight@...LAB.COM" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp repair: Fix unaligned access when repairing options
 (v2)

On 04/26/2012 01:23 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.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@...allels.com>
> 
> Hmmm, this didn't show up on netdev, I wonder why?

So do I :( I haven't received any mail with errors from netdev, neither
Parallels mail server reported any problems.

I will resubmit this one again.

Thanks,
Pavel
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html