tree b0e1076a5162b3f28c0d5e16a9993b406182563e
parent 918eb39962dfff9490a43cd08176b962cacc7978
author Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> 1320241228 +0000
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1320358156 -0400

net: Add back alignment for size for __alloc_skb

Commit 87fb4b7b533073eeeaed0b6bf7c2328995f6c075 (net: more
accurate skb truesize) changed the alignment of size. This
can cause problems at least on some machines with NFS root:

Unhandled fault: alignment exception (0x801) at 0xc183a43a
Internal error: : 801 [#1] PREEMPT
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0    Not tainted  (3.1.0-08784-g5eeee4a #733)
pc : [<c02fbba0>]    lr : [<c02fbb9c>]    psr: 60000013
sp : c180fef8  ip : 00000000  fp : c181f580
r10: 00000000  r9 : c044b28c  r8 : 00000001
r7 : c183a3a0  r6 : c1835be0  r5 : c183a412  r4 : 000001f2
r3 : 00000000  r2 : 00000000  r1 : ffffffe6  r0 : c183a43a
Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment kernel
Control: 0005317f  Table: 10004000  DAC: 00000017
Process swapper (pid: 1, stack limit = 0xc180e270)
Stack: (0xc180fef8 to 0xc1810000)
fee0:                                                       00000024 00000000
ff00: 00000000 c183b9c0 c183b8e0 c044b28c c0507ccc c019dfc4 c180ff2c c0503cf8
ff20: c180ff4c c180ff4c 00000000 c1835420 c182c740 c18349c0 c05233c0 00000000
ff40: 00000000 c00e6bb8 c180e000 00000000 c04dd82c c0507e7c c050cc18 c183b9c0
ff60: c05233c0 00000000 00000000 c01f34f4 c0430d70 c019d364 c04dd898 c04dd898
ff80: c04dd82c c0507e7c c180e000 00000000 c04c584c c01f4918 c04dd898 c04dd82c
ffa0: c04ddd28 c180e000 00000000 c0008758 c181fa60 3231d82c 00000037 00000000
ffc0: 00000000 c04dd898 c04dd82c c04ddd28 00000013 00000000 00000000 00000000
ffe0: 00000000 c04b2224 00000000 c04b21a0 c001056c c001056c 00000000 00000000
Function entered at [<c02fbba0>] from [<c019dfc4>]
Function entered at [<c019dfc4>] from [<c01f34f4>]
Function entered at [<c01f34f4>] from [<c01f4918>]
Function entered at [<c01f4918>] from [<c0008758>]
Function entered at [<c0008758>] from [<c04b2224>]
Function entered at [<c04b2224>] from [<c001056c>]
Code: e1a00005 e3a01028 ebfa7cb0 e35a0000 (e5858028)

Here PC is at __alloc_skb and &shinfo->dataref is unaligned because
skb->end can be unaligned without this patch.

As explained by Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>, this happens
only with SLOB, and not with SLAB or SLUB:

* Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> [111102 15:56]:
>
> Your patch is absolutely needed, I completely forgot about SLOB :(
>
> since, kmalloc(386) on SLOB gives exactly ksize=386 bytes, not nearest
> power of two.
>
> [   60.305763] malloc(size=385)->ffff880112c11e38 ksize=386 -> nsize=2
> [   60.305921] malloc(size=385)->ffff88007c92ce28 ksize=386 -> nsize=2
> [   60.306898] malloc(size=656)->ffff88007c44ad28 ksize=656 -> nsize=272
> [   60.325385] malloc(size=656)->ffff88007c575868 ksize=656 -> nsize=272
> [   60.325531] malloc(size=656)->ffff88011c777230 ksize=656 -> nsize=272
> [   60.325701] malloc(size=656)->ffff880114011008 ksize=656 -> nsize=272
> [   60.346716] malloc(size=385)->ffff880114142008 ksize=386 -> nsize=2
> [   60.346900] malloc(size=385)->ffff88011c777690 ksize=386 -> nsize=2

Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>