BUG/MEDIUM: dns: fix alignment issues in the DNS response parser
Alexander Lebedev reported that the DNS parser crashes in 1.6 with a bus
error on Sparc when it receives a response. This is obviously caused by
some alignment issues. The issue can also be reproduced on ARMv5 when
setting /proc/cpu/alignment to 4 (which helps debugging).
Two places cause this crash in turn, the first one is when the IP address
from the packet is compared to the current one, and the second place is
when the address is assigned because an unaligned address is passed to
update_server_addr().
This patch modifies these places to properly use memcpy() and memcmp()
to manipulate the unaligned data.
Nenad Merdanovic found another set of places specific to 1.7 in functions
in_net_ipv4() and in_net_ipv6(), which are used to compare networks. 1.6
has the functions but does not use them. There we perform a temporary copy
to a local variable to fix the problem. The type of the function's argument
is wrong since it's not necessarily aligned, so we change it for a const
void * instead.
This fix must be backported to 1.6. Note that in 1.6 the code is slightly
different, there's no rec[] array, the pointer is used directly from the
buffer.
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