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Date:	Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:54:04 +0100
From:	"Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@...il.com>
To:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
Cc:	Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] skbuff: align sk_buff::cb to 64 bit

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:42:03PM -0800, David Daney wrote:
> Felix Fietkau wrote:
> > The alignment requirement for 64-bit load/store instructions on ARM is
> > implementation defined. Some CPUs (such as Marvell Feroceon) do not
> > generate an exception, if such an instruction is executed with an
> > address that is not 64 bit aligned. 
> > In such a case, the Feroceon corrupts adjacent memory, which showed up
> > in my tests as a crash in the rx path of ath9k that only occured with
> > CONFIG_XFRM set. This crash happened, because the first field of the
> > mac80211 rx status info in the cb is an u64, and changing it corrupted
> > the skb->sp field.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>
> > Cc: stable@...nel.org
> > ---
> > --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
> > @@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ struct sk_buff {
> >  	 * want to keep them across layers you have to do a skb_clone()
> >  	 * first. This is owned by whoever has the skb queued ATM.
> >  	 */
> > -	char			cb[48];
> > +	char			cb[48] __attribute__((aligned(8)));
> >  
> 
> 
> s/__attribute__((aligned(8)))/__aligned(8)/
> 
> Could the same thing be achieved by swapping the order of the dev and 
> tstamp fields instead of adding the alignment attribute?
> 
> What is the sizeof(void *) on this thing?

I'd guess the problem is with the accessor to the thing.
something in the opaque cb ptr its beeing accessed wroingly causing
overwrites.

Cheers,
ed
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