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authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>2010-02-23 06:45:51 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-02-27 06:16:59 -0500
commitda3f5cf1f8ebb0fab5c5fd09adb189166594ad6c (patch)
treeb00659673aee2b4461b1b7c9b352dc1add211fe4
parent8d6184e4881b423522136aeb3ec1cbd9c35e8813 (diff)
skbuff: align sk_buff::cb to 64 bit and close some potential holes
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. This patch also closes some potential pre-existing holes in the sk_buff struct surrounding the cb[] area. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/skbuff.h13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index ba0f8e3a9cda..d266eeef522d 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -315,22 +315,23 @@ struct sk_buff {
315 struct sk_buff *next; 315 struct sk_buff *next;
316 struct sk_buff *prev; 316 struct sk_buff *prev;
317 317
318 struct sock *sk;
319 ktime_t tstamp; 318 ktime_t tstamp;
319
320 struct sock *sk;
320 struct net_device *dev; 321 struct net_device *dev;
321 322
322 unsigned long _skb_dst;
323#ifdef CONFIG_XFRM
324 struct sec_path *sp;
325#endif
326 /* 323 /*
327 * This is the control buffer. It is free to use for every 324 * This is the control buffer. It is free to use for every
328 * layer. Please put your private variables there. If you 325 * layer. Please put your private variables there. If you
329 * want to keep them across layers you have to do a skb_clone() 326 * want to keep them across layers you have to do a skb_clone()
330 * first. This is owned by whoever has the skb queued ATM. 327 * first. This is owned by whoever has the skb queued ATM.
331 */ 328 */
332 char cb[48]; 329 char cb[48] __aligned(8);
333 330
331 unsigned long _skb_dst;
332#ifdef CONFIG_XFRM
333 struct sec_path *sp;
334#endif
334 unsigned int len, 335 unsigned int len,
335 data_len; 336 data_len;
336 __u16 mac_len, 337 __u16 mac_len,