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authorSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>2012-11-06 00:25:27 +0400
committerAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>2012-11-21 15:35:47 +0400
commite022b956c11084f3ee1c6ece523e14ac07b7c645 (patch)
tree70651b228c9761e765d4805e42b885411043cad4 /net/batman-adv
parentd81f78ec37ecad3a4cc0a71d0ea1f74994ec5cda (diff)
downloadlinux-e022b956c11084f3ee1c6ece523e14ac07b7c645.tar.xz
batman-adv: Use packing of 2 for all headers before an ethernet header
All packet headers in front of an ethernet header have to be completely divisible by 2 but not by 4 to make the payload after the ethernet header again 4 bytes boundary aligned. A packing of 2 is necessary to avoid extra padding at the end of the struct caused by a structure member which is larger than two bytes. Otherwise the structure would not fulfill the previously mentioned rule to avoid the misalignment of the payload after the ethernet header. It may also lead to leakage of information when the padding it not initialized before sending. 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/batman-adv')
-rw-r--r--net/batman-adv/packet.h16
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/packet.h b/net/batman-adv/packet.h
index df548ed196d3..1c5454d33f67 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/packet.h
+++ b/net/batman-adv/packet.h
@@ -173,6 +173,18 @@ struct batadv_icmp_packet_rr {
uint8_t rr[BATADV_RR_LEN][ETH_ALEN];
};
+/* All packet headers in front of an ethernet header have to be completely
+ * divisible by 2 but not by 4 to make the payload after the ethernet
+ * header again 4 bytes boundary aligned.
+ *
+ * A packing of 2 is necessary to avoid extra padding at the end of the struct
+ * caused by a structure member which is larger than two bytes. Otherwise
+ * the structure would not fulfill the previously mentioned rule to avoid the
+ * misalignment of the payload after the ethernet header. It may also lead to
+ * leakage of information when the padding it not initialized before sending.
+ */
+#pragma pack(2)
+
struct batadv_unicast_packet {
struct batadv_header header;
uint8_t ttvn; /* destination translation table version number */
@@ -216,7 +228,9 @@ struct batadv_bcast_packet {
/* "4 bytes boundary + 2 bytes" long to make the payload after the
* following ethernet header again 4 bytes boundary aligned
*/
-} __packed;
+};
+
+#pragma pack()
struct batadv_vis_packet {
struct batadv_header header;