Misalignment, MIPS, and ip_hdr(skb)->version

[David Miller]

From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason at zx2c4.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 01:29:42 +0100

> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 8:52 PM, David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> wrote:
>> The only truly difficult case to handle is GRE encapsulation.  Is
>> that the situation you are running into?
>>
>> If not, please figure out what the header configuration looks like
>> in the case that hits for you, and what the originating device is
>> just in case it is a device driver issue.
> 
> My case is my own driver and my own protocol, which uses a 13 byte
> header. I can, if absolutely necessary, change the protocol to add
> another byte of padding. Or I can choose not to decrypt in place but
> rather use a different trick, like overwriting the header during
> decryption, though this removes some of the scatterwalk optimizations
> when src and dst are the same. Or something else. I wrote the top
> email of this thread inquiring about just exactly how bad it is to
> call netif_rx(skb) when skb->data is unaligned.

You really have to land the IP header on a proper 4 byte boundary.

I would suggest pushing 3 dummy garbage bytes of padding at the front
or the end of your header.