Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] xfrm: Fix unaligned access to stats in copy_to_user_state()

2015-10-23 Thread Steffen Klassert
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:48:25AM -0400, Sowmini Varadhan wrote: > > On sparc, deleting established SAs (e.g., by restarting ipsec) > results in unaligned access messages via xfrm_del_sa -> > km_state_notify -> xfrm_send_state_notify(). > > Even though struct xfrm_usersa_info is aligned on

[PATCH v2 net-next] xfrm: Fix unaligned access to stats in copy_to_user_state()

2015-10-21 Thread Sowmini Varadhan
On sparc, deleting established SAs (e.g., by restarting ipsec) results in unaligned access messages via xfrm_del_sa -> km_state_notify -> xfrm_send_state_notify(). Even though struct xfrm_usersa_info is aligned on 8-byte boundaries, netlink attributes are fundamentally only 4 byte aligned, and