linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix tcp_fastopen unaligned access complaints on sparc

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Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2017 12:30:38 -0800
From:   Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...cle.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Rob Gardner <rob.gardner@...cle.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix tcp_fastopen unaligned access complaints on
 sparc

On 1/12/2017 12:25 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-01-12 at 13:15 -0700, Rob Gardner wrote:
>
>>
>> I suspect that someplace, somebody is casting val to an int * or
>> something like that.
>
> Then that would be the bug. Can we root cause this please ?
>
>

Look in net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c:tcp_fastopen_cookie_gen() for the line

	 struct in6_addr *buf = (struct in6_addr *) tmp.val;

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