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SubjectRe: Linux 4.4.34
On Tue, Nov 22, 09:14, Eric Dumazet wrote
> We definitely want to fix the real bug, not working around it.
>
> Seems an aliasing problem, key_control and key_basic might point to
> adjacent memory
> and a barrier() would solve the issue as well.

This was also my first idea. I added some printk statements
which confirmed that key_basic->n_proto, key_basic->ip_proto and
key_control->thoff were indeed close to each other. They did not
overlap though.

Hope this helps
Andre
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