[PATCH net-next 03/15] batman-adv: dat: avoid unaligned fault in IP extraction
Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:39:06 +0200
| Newsgroups | org.open-mesh.lists.batman,org.kernel.vger.netdev,org.kernel.vger.stable |
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From: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]> Independent of the alignment of the ARP packet in the SKB, either the batadv_arp_ip_src or the batadv_arp_ip_dst will have an unaligned access (on HW without native unaligned read support). Use get_unaligned() to handle this properly on all architectures. Cc: [email protected] Reported-by: Sashiko <[email protected]> Fixes: 5c3a0e553593 ("batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add ARP parsing functions") Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]> --- net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c b/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c index a6fe4820f65b9..6ca946da92758 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c @@ -250,7 +250,10 @@ static u8 *batadv_arp_hw_src(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_size) */ static __be32 batadv_arp_ip_src(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_size) { - return *(__force __be32 *)(batadv_arp_hw_src(skb, hdr_size) + ETH_ALEN); + u8 *src = batadv_arp_hw_src(skb, hdr_size) + ETH_ALEN; + __be32 *ip = (__force __be32 *)src; + + return get_unaligned(ip); } /** @@ -275,8 +278,9 @@ static u8 *batadv_arp_hw_dst(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_size) static __be32 batadv_arp_ip_dst(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_size) { u8 *dst = batadv_arp_hw_src(skb, hdr_size) + ETH_ALEN * 2 + 4; + __be32 *ip = (__force __be32 *)dst; - return *(__force __be32 *)dst; + return get_unaligned(ip); } /** -- 2.47.3