2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Mark H. Weaver [ Upstream commit 534f81a5068799799e264fd162e9488a129f98d4 ] 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 Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include @@ -466,7 +467,7 @@ static void tcp_sack(const struct sk_buf for (i = 0; i < (opsize - TCPOLEN_SACK_BASE); i += TCPOLEN_SACK_PERBLOCK) { - tmp = ntohl(*((__be32 *)(ptr+i)+1)); + tmp = get_unaligned_be32((__be32 *)(ptr+i)+1); if (after(tmp, *sack)) *sack = tmp; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/