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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:20:20 -0400 (EDT) From: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> To: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com> cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fix several unaligned kernel accesses in the CIPSO engine On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Paul Moore wrote: > IPv4 options are not very well aligned within the packet and the format of a > CIPSO option is even worse. The result is that the CIPSO engine in the kernel > does a few unaligned accesses when parsing and validating incoming packets with > CIPSO options attached which generate error messages on certain alignment > sensitive platforms. This patch fixes this by marking these unaligned accesses > with the get_unaliagned() macro. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> - 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
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