[PATCH] Staging: dst: fix 'Client is not allowed' on sparc

From: Alexander Beregalov
Date: Sun Dec 13 2009 - 09:56:18 EST



Not for applying, only describe the problem.


There is a warning on sparc
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[6c0dec] inet_getname+0x4c/0xc0
which goes from
net/ipv4/af_inet.c:
int inet_getname(
...
*uaddr_len = sizeof(*sin);

sizeof(*sin) is 16, but inet_getname sets sa_data_len to 0.
That is why client is denied to access the device.
inet_getname() does not read uaddr_len, only
writes, so move initialization of sa_data_len after it.
Make struct saddr aligned similar to
struct __kernel_sockaddr_storage. This fixes the warning.

---
drivers/staging/dst/export.c | 2 +-
include/linux/dst.h | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/dst/export.c b/drivers/staging/dst/export.c
index c324230..4644804 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/dst/export.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/dst/export.c
@@ -166,12 +166,12 @@ static struct dst_state *dst_accept_client(struct dst_state *st)
}
new->socket = sock;

- new->ctl.addr.sa_data_len = sizeof(struct sockaddr);
err = kernel_getpeername(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&new->ctl.addr,
(int *)&new->ctl.addr.sa_data_len);
if (err)
goto err_out_put;

+ new->ctl.addr.sa_data_len = sizeof(struct sockaddr);
new->permissions = dst_check_permissions(st, new);
if (new->permissions == 0) {
err = -EPERM;
diff --git a/include/linux/dst.h b/include/linux/dst.h
index e26fed8..454b15a 100644
--- a/include/linux/dst.h
+++ b/include/linux/dst.h
@@ -74,10 +74,10 @@ struct saddr {
/* address family, AF_xxx */
unsigned short sa_family;
/* 14 bytes of protocol address */
- char sa_data[SADDR_MAX_DATA];
+ char sa_data[SADDR_MAX_DATA - sizeof(unsigned short)];
/* Number of bytes used in sa_data */
unsigned short sa_data_len;
-};
+} __attribute__((aligned(16))); /* sizeof(struct sockaddr) */

/* Address structure */
struct dst_network_ctl
--
1.6.5.6

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