From: Thomas Chou Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 23:33:19 +0000 (+0000) Subject: ethoc: align received packet to make IP header at word boundary X-Git-Tag: v2.6.32-rc4~35^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=050f91dcd9a45a14449dded5180f633692b588d2;p=~shefty%2Frdma-dev.git ethoc: align received packet to make IP header at word boundary The packet buffer is allocated at 4 bytes boundary, but the IP header length and version bits is located at byte 14. These bit fields access as 32 bits word and caused exception on processors that do not support unaligned access. The patch adds 2 bytes offset to make the bit fields word aligned. Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethoc.c b/drivers/net/ethoc.c index f92747fc5f8..0c6c7f47ace 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethoc.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethoc.c @@ -399,6 +399,10 @@ static int ethoc_rx(struct net_device *dev, int limit) if (ethoc_update_rx_stats(priv, &bd) == 0) { int size = bd.stat >> 16; struct sk_buff *skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, size); + + size -= 4; /* strip the CRC */ + skb_reserve(skb, 2); /* align TCP/IP header */ + if (likely(skb)) { void *src = phys_to_virt(bd.addr); memcpy_fromio(skb_put(skb, size), src, size);