From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Message-Id: <200112182029.XAA11287@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Subject: ARM: Re: TCP LAST-ACK state broken in 2.4.17-pre2 [NEW DATA]
To: Mika.Liljeberg@welho.com (Mika Liljeberg)
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:29:06 +0300 (MSK)
Cc: Mika.Liljeberg@nokia.com, davem@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        sarolaht@cs.helsinki.fi, rmk@arm.linux.ORG.UK
In-Reply-To: <3C1FA558.E889A00D@welho.com> from "Mika Liljeberg" at Dec 18, 1 10:21:44 pm
MIME-Version: 1.0
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org

Hello!

> It's ARM in little endian mode.

I think it is answer to the question.

No doubts it still has broken misaligned access.


> Now that you mention it, tcp_parse_options() in input.c seems to expect
> that the timestamps are word aligned,

Nope. It does not expect any alignment, but it is really supposed
to penalise misbehaving cases.

Alexey
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