netdev - [PATCH v4 1/2] RDS: memory allocated must be align to 8

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <1460030256-16791-1-git-send-email-shamir.rabinovitch@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu,  7 Apr 2016 07:57:35 -0400
From:	Shamir Rabinovitch <shamir.rabinovitch@...cle.com>
To:	rds-devel@....oracle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, shamir.rabinovitch@...cle.com,
	santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/2] RDS: memory allocated must be align to 8

Fix issue in 'rds_ib_cong_recv' when accessing unaligned memory
allocated by 'rds_page_remainder_alloc' using uint64_t pointer.

Signed-off-by: Shamir Rabinovitch <shamir.rabinovitch@...cle.com>
---
 net/rds/page.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/page.c b/net/rds/page.c
index 616f21f..e2b5a58 100644
--- a/net/rds/page.c
+++ b/net/rds/page.c
@@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ int rds_page_remainder_alloc(struct scatterlist *scat, unsigned long bytes,
 			if (rem->r_offset != 0)
 				rds_stats_inc(s_page_remainder_hit);
 
-			rem->r_offset += bytes;
-			if (rem->r_offset == PAGE_SIZE) {
+			rem->r_offset += ALIGN(bytes, 8);
+			if (rem->r_offset >= PAGE_SIZE) {
 				__free_page(rem->r_page);
 				rem->r_page = NULL;
 			}
-- 
1.7.1