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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] tcp: fix tcp_fastopen unaligned access complaints on sparc
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From: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:24:58 -0800

> Fix up a data alignment issue on sparc by swapping the order
> of the cookie byte array field with the length field in
> struct tcp_fastopen_cookie, and making it a proper union
> to clean up the typecasting.
>
> This addresses log complaints like these:
> log_unaligned: 113 callbacks suppressed
> Kernel unaligned access at TPC[976490] tcp_try_fastopen+0x2d0/0x360
> Kernel unaligned access at TPC[9764ac] tcp_try_fastopen+0x2ec/0x360
> Kernel unaligned access at TPC[9764c8] tcp_try_fastopen+0x308/0x360
> Kernel unaligned access at TPC[9764e4] tcp_try_fastopen+0x324/0x360
> Kernel unaligned access at TPC[976490] tcp_try_fastopen+0x2d0/0x360
>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>
> ---
> v2: Use Eric's suggestion for a union in the struct

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.

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