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[PATCH net-next 2/2] xfrm: Fix unaligned access in xfrm_notify_sa() for DELSA

From Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH net-next 2/2] xfrm: Fix unaligned access in xfrm_notify_sa() for DELSA
Date 2015-10-19 23:30 +0200
Message-ID <qlqae-8it-43@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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On sparc, deleting established SAs (e.g., by restarting ipsec
at the peer) results in unaligned access messages via
xfrm_del_sa -> km_state_notify -> xfrm_send_state_notify().
Use an aligned pointer to xfrm_usersa_info for this case.

Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
index a8de9e3..158ef4a 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
@@ -2659,7 +2659,7 @@ static int xfrm_notify_sa(struct xfrm_state *x, const struct km_event *c)
 		if (attr == NULL)
 			goto out_free_skb;
 
-		p = nla_data(attr);
+		p = PTR_ALIGN(nla_data(attr), __alignof__(*p));
 	}
 	err = copy_to_user_state_extra(x, p, skb);
 	if (err)
-- 
1.7.1

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[PATCH 0/2] xfrm/crypto: unaligned access fixes Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com> - 2015-10-19 23:30 +0200
  [PATCH net-next 2/2] xfrm: Fix unaligned access in xfrm_notify_sa() for DELSA Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com> - 2015-10-19 23:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] xfrm: Fix unaligned access in  xfrm_notify_sa() for DELSA Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> - 2015-10-21 09:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] xfrm: Fix unaligned access in  xfrm_notify_sa() for DELSA Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com> - 2015-10-21 13:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] xfrm: Fix unaligned access in  xfrm_notify_sa() for DELSA Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com> - 2015-10-21 14:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] xfrm: Fix unaligned access in  xfrm_notify_sa() for DELSA David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-10-21 15:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] xfrm: Fix unaligned access in  xfrm_notify_sa() for DELSA Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com> - 2015-10-21 15:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] xfrm: Fix unaligned access in  xfrm_notify_sa() for DELSA David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-10-21 15:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] xfrm: Fix unaligned access in  xfrm_notify_sa() for DELSA David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-10-21 15:00 +0200

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