Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: fix unaligned memory access in tcp_sack

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:48:24 +0100

David Miller wrote:
> From: "Mark H. Weaver" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:09:51 -0400
> 
>> This patch fixes an unaligned memory access in tcp_sack while reading
>> sequence numbers from TCP selective acknowledgement options.  Prior to
>> applying this patch, upstream linux-2.6.27.20 was occasionally
>> generating messages like this on my sparc64 system:
>>
>>   [54678.532071] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[6b17d4] tcp_packet+0xcd4/0xd00
>>
>> More details provided upon request.  Apologies in advance if I've sent
>> this to the wrong place or not followed proper procedures.
> 
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email-masked]>

Looks good to me. Dave, please apply directly or pull from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6.git

Thanks!