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    [TCP]: Fix TCP header misalignment · 21df56c6
    Herbert Xu authored
    
    
    Indeed my previous change to alloc_pskb has made it possible
    for the TCP header to be misaligned iff the MTU is not a multiple
    of 4 (and less than a page).  So I suspect the optimised IPsec
    MTU calculation is giving you just such an MTU :)
    
    This patch fixes it by changing alloc_pskb to make sure that
    the size is at least 32-bit aligned.  This does not cause the
    problem fixed by the previous patch because max_header is always
    32-bit aligned which means that in the SG/NOTSO case this will
    be a no-op.
    
    I thought about putting this in the callers but all the current
    callers are from TCP.  If and when we get a non-TCP caller we
    can always create a TCP wrapper for this function and move the
    alignment over there.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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