[PPP]: handle misaligned accesses

From: "Philippe De Muyter" <phdm@macqel.be>

This patch avoids ppp-generated kernel crashes on machines where unaligned
accesses are forbidden (ie: m68000), by fixing ppp alignment setting for
reused skb's.
Signed-off-by: NPhilippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

drivers/net/ppp_async.c

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
+#include <asm/string.h>
 
 #define PPP_VERSION	"2.4.2"
 
@@ -835,8 +836,11 @@ process_input_packet(struct asyncppp *ap)
  err:
 	/* frame had an error, remember that, reset SC_TOSS & SC_ESCAPE */
 	ap->state = SC_PREV_ERROR;
-	if (skb)
+	if (skb) {
+		/* make skb appear as freshly allocated */
 		skb_trim(skb, 0);
+		skb_reserve(skb, - skb_headroom(skb));
+	}
 }
 
 /* Called when the tty driver has data for us. Runs parallel with the
@@ -889,10 +893,17 @@ ppp_async_input(struct asyncppp *ap, const unsigned char *buf,
 				skb = dev_alloc_skb(ap->mru + PPP_HDRLEN + 2);
 				if (skb == 0)
 					goto nomem;
-				/* Try to get the payload 4-byte aligned */
+ 				ap->rpkt = skb;
+ 			}
+ 			if (skb->len == 0) {
+ 				/* Try to get the payload 4-byte aligned.
+ 				 * This should match the
+ 				 * PPP_ALLSTATIONS/PPP_UI/compressed tests in
+ 				 * process_input_packet, but we do not have
+ 				 * enough chars here to test buf[1] and buf[2].
+ 				 */
 				if (buf[0] != PPP_ALLSTATIONS)
 					skb_reserve(skb, 2 + (buf[0] & 1));
-				ap->rpkt = skb;
 			}
 			if (n > skb_tailroom(skb)) {
 				/* packet overflowed MRU */