Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix tcp_fastopen unaligned access complaints on sparc

From: Shannon Nelson
Date: Thu Jan 12 2017 - 15:30:34 EST


On 1/12/2017 12:25 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
On Thu, 2017-01-12 at 13:15 -0700, Rob Gardner wrote:


I suspect that someplace, somebody is casting val to an int * or
something like that.

Then that would be the bug. Can we root cause this please ?



Look in net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c:tcp_fastopen_cookie_gen() for the line

struct in6_addr *buf = (struct in6_addr *) tmp.val;

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