netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: tso: fix unaligned access to crafted TCP header in helper API

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Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:53:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	karl.beldan@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, karl.beldan@...ierawaves.com,
	ezequiel.garcia@...e-electrons.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: tso: fix unaligned access to crafted TCP header
 in helper API

From: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 16:06:05 +0200

> From: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@...ierawaves.com>
> 
> The crafted header start address is from a driver supplied buffer, which
> one can reasonably expect to be aligned on a 4-bytes boundary.
> However ATM the TSO helper API is only used by ethernet drivers and
> the tcp header will then be aligned to a 2-bytes only boundary from the
> header start address.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@...ierawaves.com>

Applied, thank you.
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