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 <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c b/net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c
index 5874c0e..87ca809 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c
@@ -177,13 +177,13 @@
if (len >= sizeof(struct batadv_icmp_packet_rr))
packet_len = sizeof(struct batadv_icmp_packet_rr);
- skb = dev_alloc_skb(packet_len + ETH_HLEN);
+ skb = dev_alloc_skb(packet_len + ETH_HLEN + NET_IP_ALIGN);
if (!skb) {
len = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
- skb_reserve(skb, ETH_HLEN);
+ skb_reserve(skb, ETH_HLEN + NET_IP_ALIGN);
icmp_packet = (struct batadv_icmp_packet_rr *)skb_put(skb, packet_len);
if (copy_from_user(icmp_packet, buff, packet_len)) {