From 5b246574430f808e5b98ef40b8058bf5ac1df02d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sven Eckelmann Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 17:11:45 +0100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli --- net/batman-adv/vis.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/batman-adv/vis.c') diff --git a/net/batman-adv/vis.c b/net/batman-adv/vis.c index 5abd1454fb0..ad14a6c91d6 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/vis.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/vis.c @@ -396,12 +396,12 @@ batadv_add_packet(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, return NULL; len = sizeof(*packet) + vis_info_len; - info->skb_packet = dev_alloc_skb(len + ETH_HLEN); + info->skb_packet = dev_alloc_skb(len + ETH_HLEN + NET_IP_ALIGN); if (!info->skb_packet) { kfree(info); return NULL; } - skb_reserve(info->skb_packet, ETH_HLEN); + skb_reserve(info->skb_packet, ETH_HLEN + NET_IP_ALIGN); packet = (struct batadv_vis_packet *)skb_put(info->skb_packet, len); kref_init(&info->refcount); @@ -873,12 +873,13 @@ int batadv_vis_init(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv) if (!bat_priv->vis.my_info) goto err; - len = sizeof(*packet) + BATADV_MAX_VIS_PACKET_SIZE + ETH_HLEN; + len = sizeof(*packet) + BATADV_MAX_VIS_PACKET_SIZE; + len += ETH_HLEN + NET_IP_ALIGN; bat_priv->vis.my_info->skb_packet = dev_alloc_skb(len); if (!bat_priv->vis.my_info->skb_packet) goto free_info; - skb_reserve(bat_priv->vis.my_info->skb_packet, ETH_HLEN); + skb_reserve(bat_priv->vis.my_info->skb_packet, ETH_HLEN + NET_IP_ALIGN); tmp_skb = bat_priv->vis.my_info->skb_packet; packet = (struct batadv_vis_packet *)skb_put(tmp_skb, sizeof(*packet)); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2