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Invoking the following commands on a 32-bit architecture with strict
alignment requirements (such as an ARMv7-based Raspberry Pi) results
in an alignment exception:
# nft add table ip test-ip4
# nft add chain ip test-ip4 output { type filter hook output priority 0; }
# nft add rule ip test-ip4 output quota 1025 bytes
Alignment trap: not handling instruction e1b26f9f at [<7f4473f8>]
Unhandled fault: alignment exception (0x001) at 0xb832e824
Internal error: : 1 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
Hardware name: BCM2835
[<7f4473fc>] (nft_quota_do_init [nft_quota])
[<7f447448>] (nft_quota_init [nft_quota])
[<7f4260d0>] (nf_tables_newrule [nf_tables])
[<7f4168dc>] (nfnetlink_rcv_batch [nfnetlink])
[<7f416bd0>] (nfnetlink_rcv [nfnetlink])
[<8078b334>] (netlink_unicast)
[<8078b664>] (netlink_sendmsg)
[<8071b47c>] (sock_sendmsg)
[<8071bd18>] (___sys_sendmsg)
[<8071ce3c>] (__sys_sendmsg)
[<8071ce94>] (sys_sendmsg)
The reason is that nft_quota_do_init() calls atomic64_set() on an
atomic64_t which is only aligned to 32-bit, not 64-bit, because it
succeeds struct nft_expr in memory which only contains a 32-bit pointer.
Fix by aligning the nft_expr private data to 64-bit.
Fixes: 96518518cc41 ("netfilter: add nftables")
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.13+
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.