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authorSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>2012-11-04 17:11:45 +0100
committerAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>2012-11-07 20:00:16 +0100
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batman-adv: Reserve extra bytes in skb for better alignment
The ethernet header is 14 bytes long. Therefore, the data after it is not 4 byte aligned and may cause problems on systems without unaligned data access. Reserving NET_IP_ALIGN more byes can fix the misalignment of the ethernet header. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c')
-rw-r--r--net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c b/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c
index 75403a491892..9f3925a85aab 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c
@@ -411,9 +411,11 @@ static void batadv_iv_ogm_aggregate_new(const unsigned char *packet_buff,
if ((atomic_read(&bat_priv->aggregated_ogms)) &&
(packet_len < BATADV_MAX_AGGREGATION_BYTES))
- skb_size = BATADV_MAX_AGGREGATION_BYTES + ETH_HLEN;
+ skb_size = BATADV_MAX_AGGREGATION_BYTES;
else
- skb_size = packet_len + ETH_HLEN;
+ skb_size = packet_len;
+
+ skb_size += ETH_HLEN + NET_IP_ALIGN;
forw_packet_aggr->skb = dev_alloc_skb(skb_size);
if (!forw_packet_aggr->skb) {
@@ -422,7 +424,7 @@ static void batadv_iv_ogm_aggregate_new(const unsigned char *packet_buff,
kfree(forw_packet_aggr);
goto out;
}
- skb_reserve(forw_packet_aggr->skb, ETH_HLEN);
+ skb_reserve(forw_packet_aggr->skb, ETH_HLEN + NET_IP_ALIGN);
INIT_HLIST_NODE(&forw_packet_aggr->list);