[NET]: Make sure ctl buffer is aligned properly in sys_sendmsg().
It's on the stack and declared as "unsigned char[]", but pointers
and similar can be in here thus we need to give it an explicit
alignment attribute.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index f9264472..dbd1a68 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -1700,7 +1700,9 @@
struct socket *sock;
char address[MAX_SOCK_ADDR];
struct iovec iovstack[UIO_FASTIOV], *iov = iovstack;
- unsigned char ctl[sizeof(struct cmsghdr) + 20]; /* 20 is size of ipv6_pktinfo */
+ unsigned char ctl[sizeof(struct cmsghdr) + 20]
+ __attribute__ ((aligned (sizeof(__kernel_size_t))));
+ /* 20 is size of ipv6_pktinfo */
unsigned char *ctl_buf = ctl;
struct msghdr msg_sys;
int err, ctl_len, iov_size, total_len;
