netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] fix several unaligned kernel accesses in the CIPSO engine

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Message-Id: <20070607.183823.72710741.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:38:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jmorris@...ei.org
Cc:	paul.moore@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fix several unaligned kernel accesses in the CIPSO
 engine

From: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:20:20 -0400 (EDT)

> 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>

Also applied, thanks.
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