linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 349/370] tcp: fix tcp_fastopen unaligned access complaints on sparc

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Date:   Fri, 10 Mar 2017 11:46:23 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        "Shannon Nelson" <shannon.nelson@...cle.com>,
        "Eric Dumazet" <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        "Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 349/370] tcp: fix tcp_fastopen unaligned access
 complaints on  sparc

3.16.42-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...cle.com>

[ Upstream commit 003c941057eaa868ca6fedd29a274c863167230d ]

Fix up a data alignment issue on sparc by swapping the order
of the cookie byte array field with the length field in
struct tcp_fastopen_cookie, and making it a proper union
to clean up the typecasting.

This addresses log complaints like these:
    log_unaligned: 113 callbacks suppressed
    Kernel unaligned access at TPC[976490] tcp_try_fastopen+0x2d0/0x360
    Kernel unaligned access at TPC[9764ac] tcp_try_fastopen+0x2ec/0x360
    Kernel unaligned access at TPC[9764c8] tcp_try_fastopen+0x308/0x360
    Kernel unaligned access at TPC[9764e4] tcp_try_fastopen+0x324/0x360
    Kernel unaligned access at TPC[976490] tcp_try_fastopen+0x2d0/0x360

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...cle.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 include/linux/tcp.h     | 7 ++++++-
 net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/tcp.h
+++ b/include/linux/tcp.h
@@ -57,8 +57,13 @@ static inline unsigned int tcp_optlen(co
 
 /* TCP Fast Open Cookie as stored in memory */
 struct tcp_fastopen_cookie {
+	union {
+		u8	val[TCP_FASTOPEN_COOKIE_MAX];
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
+		struct in6_addr addr;
+#endif
+	};
 	s8	len;
-	u8	val[TCP_FASTOPEN_COOKIE_MAX];
 };
 
 /* This defines a selective acknowledgement block. */
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static bool tcp_fastopen_cookie_gen(stru
 		struct tcp_fastopen_cookie tmp;
 
 		if (__tcp_fastopen_cookie_gen(&ip6h->saddr, &tmp)) {
-			struct in6_addr *buf = (struct in6_addr *) tmp.val;
+			struct in6_addr *buf = &tmp.addr;
 			int i = 4;
 
 			for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)